SUMMARY: /sbin/advfs/salvage and device special files problem

From: Niels Kokholm <kokholm_at_math.ku.dk>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 11:52:18 +0200 (MET DST)

My question:

QUESTION: is it correct that /sbin/advfs/salvage (du4.0d) does not
salvage device special files with correct major/minor device numbers?

I got one answer from Dr. Tom Blinn <tpb_at_zk3.dec.com> citing the
documentation for salvage:

>The salvage utility helps you recover file data after an AdvFS file domain
>has become unmountable due to some type of data corruption.
  
and explaining why I therefore shouldn't expect expect salvage to recover
major/minor device numbers since they are not "file data".

Yours


   Niels Joergen Kokholm | email: kokholm_at_math.ku.dk
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