Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:11:11 +0300 From: Roman Kurakin <rik@inse.ru> To: Joerg Pernfuss <elessar@bsdforen.de> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk copy Message-ID: <43F8605F.1050803@inse.ru> In-Reply-To: <20060218231708.6240d912@loki> References: <43F744FB.2060503@inse.ru> <20060218171638.6ac81f82@loki> <43F79303.5050808@inse.ru> <20060218231708.6240d912@loki>
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Joerg Pernfuss: >On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 00:34:59 +0300 >Roman Kurakin <rik@inse.ru> wrote: > > > >>How this will deal with partition table? File is not partition copy, >>it is full copy of entire disk with partition table etc. >> >> > >It won't deal with anything. It will simply provide the file as a >device node. If the file contains valid file system structures, then >GEOM will create these (similar to a usb drive getting plugged in). > Thanks! I was unaware of such behaviour. It is really works and I can access my backup images. rik >~/test> ls -l >-rw-r--r-- 1 elessar users 20971520 18 Feb 23:09 container > >~/test> file container >container: x86 boot sector > >~/test> sudo mdconfig -a -t vnode -f container -u 0 > >~/test> ls /dev/md0* >/dev/md0 /dev/md0s1 /dev/md0s1a /dev/md0s1c > >~/test> sudo mdconfig -d -u 0 >~/test> > >
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