[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

(snip)

> 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...

I am not sure how it knows, but it might be that DD would do.

Even for a larger new disk (with unused space), it might be that
disk data is used to identify it.  As far as I understand, it is
left to the implementation on how to distinguish them.

More specifically, how to generate file handles.

-- glen