Coda File System

Re: moving /vicepa

From: Jan Harkes <jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:53:51 -0400
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 07:52:25PM -0700, Steve Simitzis wrote:
> at some point, i will probably need to move /vicepa to a different disk,
> probably one that is larger and newer.
> 
> is it safe to simply tar up the directory and untar it to the new
> filesystem? or does codasrv care that all the inode numbers will have
> changed? (or are there any other gotchas i might have missed.)

We don't depend on existing inode numbers, as long as the naming scheme
(directory hierarchy) is maintained it should just work. I guess your
new filesystem will have to be mounted at the same /vicepa mountpoint
though.

Jan
Received on 2004-06-10 15:56:46