[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2011-05-13 14.05, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> 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.

True.
In theory, it is definitely doable.

	Johnny