[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2011-05-13 09.38, Steve Thompson wrote:
> On Fri, 13 May 2011, Bob Eager wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 13 May 2011 01:49:24 -0600, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>
>>> Ok. True. Yes, if the inode numbers were preserved, then it would be
>>> theoretically possible.
>>> However, the OS have no way of knowing for sure that the inode numbers
>>> were preserved, so that is more on the theoretical side (I actually
>>> don't know of any way to actually preserve inode numbers when copying a
>>> disk...).
>>
>> The equivalent of BACKUP/PHYSICAL would do it. It would be nice though...
>
> That would be dd.

Hmm. Yuck! Yes, dd would be a way to copy a disk preserving the inode 
numbers. Output disk must be the same size as input disk. And it will be 
slow. But ok... :-)

But the OS would still not know that this new disk was equivalent to the 
old one...

	Johnny