Coda File System

Re: venus backups [trouble on NetBSD with different inodes]

From: Nix <nix_at_esperi.demon.co.uk>
Date: 18 Dec 2002 22:44:23 +0000
On 16 Dec 2002, Greg Troxel said:
> +#ifdef STRICT_INODES
> +      /*
> +       * We intentionally don't check the inodes so that untarring a
> +       * saved tarball of DATA, LOG and the cache hierarcy can restore
> +       * a host to a previous state.  This enables bandwidth-poort hosts
> +       * to remember the effects of hoard walking when recovering from
> +       * various kinds of venus lossage as an alternative to -init.
> +       */
>        tstat.st_ino == inode &&
> +#endif /* ALLOW_WRONG_INODES */

Do you mean /* STRICT_INODES */ ?

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Received on 2002-12-18 18:03:20