Hello Garrett,
Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 12:26:11 AM, you wrote:
GDA> Robert Milkowski wrote:
>> Hello Garrett,
>>
>> In my case I'm rsync'ing entire file systems from other servers which
>> are not necessarily Solaris servers. The specific device is coming
>> from BSD system. Looks like ZFS is handling them fine but one needs to
>> use 64bit userland tools, I haven't testes UFS or any other
>> file system.
>>
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GDA> Minor nodes are inherently not portable between systems. Why on earth
GDA> would you want to rsync them from one OS to another?
It's not about if it works in rsync or not - I was just surprised that
it is possible to create such a device with 64bit application but then
default tools like ls will fail and one has to specifically point to
64bit version of ls. I would prefer if ls was using isaexec which
would help to avoid such problems.
Now, I do rsync everything for backup purposes so I can rsync it back
if needed. Now when it comes to /dev/ it's not really necessary or
required to copy it's contents in most cases (if not all).
--
Best regards,
Robert Milkowski
http://milek.blogspot.com
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