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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:20:18 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "John Keiffer" <john.keiffer@onstor.com>
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Subject: Re: system copy all
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I suppose so.  Depends on what you're trying to test.  But yeah.



On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 06:48:24 -0700 "John Keiffer"
<john.keiffer@onstor.com> wrote:

> 
> Andy,
> 
> Would it be a more valid test to do a system copy all -I and then do
> the diff?
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Sharp 
> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 3:07 PM
> To: John Keiffer
> Cc: Larry Scheer
> Subject: Re: system copy all
> 
> I see some alarming things in here, but nothing WRT to system copy all
> ~:^).  The differences in /dev are because you are comparing an in
> memory filesystem on / created by udev against a static directory of
> devices, so there's going to be a lot of differences.  Since system
> copy all doesn't erase files it doesn't overwrite, you will see as
> many "Only in /mnt1..." as you have extraneous files not on your
> running flash card.  This could include lots of log files and
> generated files of various kinds.
> 
> /debootstrap
> /initrd
> /.snapshot
> 
> Those probably shouldn't be there.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> a
> 
> 
> On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:06:14 -0700 "John Keiffer"
> <john.keiffer@onstor.com> wrote:
> 
> > I did a system copy all on my Cougar g6r10. Then I decided to mount
> > the 3 partitions of the secondary flash and do a diff. I got a lot
> > more output than I would have expected. I was hoping someone could
> > help me figure out if anything I see in the diff output should be a
> > concern. I edited out some of the file differences in /var because I
> > could tell they probably didn't matter and were only different
> > because of the time that had elapsed. The rest I would still like
> > help with. Sorry this is so long, but there has to be a defect in
> > here somewhere...
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Maybe its my major misconception that a 'system copy all' is not the
> > way to get one flash to look like the other? Or would this work if I
> > ran a system copy all -I instead? (if that's the case I'll do that
> > and report back...)
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > FYI: system compare of primary and secondary flashes yield the same
> > results (see bottom of email)
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >
> ========================================================================
> > =============================
> > 
> > g6r10:~# mount /dev/sdb4 /mnt1
> > 
> > g6r10:~# diff -r /onstor/conf /mnt1
> > 
> > Only in /mnt1: R4.0.0.0CG-032808.bom
