From: Peter.Stern@weizmann.ac.il
Date: Thu Apr 25 2002 - 06:49:14 EDT
I received the following response to my summary from Dr. Tom Blinn:
> > I can't say that I really understand what happened here. I just looked
> > at all the AdvFS option in the mount command and took a guess.
> > I guess that by using dd some AdvFS domain ID of the original disk is
> > also copied to the new disk?
>
> You copy the original disk block for block, including ALL of the on-disk
> file system metadata. That's what "dd" does (by design).
>
> > If so, how can I fix this so that I don't need to use the same domain ID
> > (which sounds potentially dangerous to me)?
>
> Don't use "dd" to "clone" your system. Create new domains on the new disk,
> then use vdump|vrestore for each fileset. Yes, this is tedious -- but it
> is fully supported and it works. What you did is not supported and may
> not work in some future release or after you apply a patch (because it's
> not in any test matrix).
>
> Tom
>
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