3 May
2007
3 May
'07
8:23 p.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
On May 3, 2007, at 1:46 PM, David Comley wrote:
More specifically, it's the Solaris volume manager, isn't it? I
forget the specific incantation, but it is possible to tell Solaris
"Forget about it" and treat a disk as a raw resource.
It's probably a good thing for most users/workloads, but mostly Sun's
volume manager just irritates me.
Doc
dd also seems to have some
implementation-specifics
baked into it. On Solaris I was completely unable to
transfer a raw VMS disk image from one drive to
another (identical) one using dd; however the same
transfer worked correctly under Linux.
This is not dd, but the disk device drivers underlying OS.