Robert Milkowski wrote:
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.
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.
isaexec adds a small perf. penalty. If you really want isaexec, you
can change it on your system.
I personally am not fond of making default system utilities isaexec based.
-- Garrett
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).
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