problems getting ufs_copy working

[Hidetoshi Shimokawa]

Remove '-a' option which requires VFS_AIO support in kernel.
If you are using 5.1 rather than -current, try 'kldload aio'.
Unfortunately, VFS_AIO is broken in -current.
Latest ufs_copy supports UFS2 too.

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At Mon, 7 Jul 2003 15:10:50 +0200,
Oliver Hoffmann wrote:
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> Maybe this question is digressing, but probably other people here are 
> interested in ufs_copy too.
> I just installed ufs_copy on my FreeBSD5.1-box. I tried to make an image from 
> my firewire-device to a file. It crashed with a core.dump:
> 
> # /sbin/ufs_copy -a /dev/da0s1e /data/backupfile
> copying /dev/da0s1e to /daten/backupfile
> ufs_version: 1, cg_size: 178.000 MB, fs_size: 152.664 GB
> cg    0/879 :Bad system call (core dumped)
> 
> I first tried it with an rw mounted filesystem (/usr), then with my unmounted 
> fw-hd (/dev/da0s1e) but I get always this crash.
> 
> The backupfile seems to be as big as the source but of course it can't:
> 
> -rw-------   1 root  wheel          153G Jul  7 12:51 backupfile
> 
> I don't know whether the ufs_copy.core is interesting or not. For me it seems 
> to be a general problem (do I have ufs2?).
> Thanks,
> 
> Oliver.
> 
>