Re: [Dump-devel] sparc vs x86 info/dumps etc....

[Stelian P. <st...@ca...>]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Stelian Pop wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Rob Cermak wrote:
> 
> > Dumps from dumpe2fs, the file systems are the same type and block size,
> > groupings are a bit different.  See information below.
> 
> Ok, I'll try to debug this tomorrow...

Ok, here it is (see the attached patch, to be applied to 0.4b13).

Please test if this works, in all four directions (sparc-sparc,
x86-sparc, sparc-x86, x86-x86), and report me the results. I would
like to include this patch in the next release (which I would like to
make at the end of this week).

> > Right from the get-go the simple command dump 0S sparc on both
> > systems produce differnet results:
> 
> Strange... maybe normal but worth a look at the code...

After having looked at the code this is normal, because, when dumping a
subset of a filesystem, all the entries of each directory on the path from
the root to the directory to be dumped are dumped (the contents of the entry 
is not dumped, only the inode). And you had more entries like these on
the sparc filesystem that on the intel one.

Stelian.
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