[iyonix-support] Re: COPY aborting on Zip and CDImage files
- From: Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:57:40 GMT
In message of 1 Feb, Steven Pampling <steve.pampling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 01 Feb, Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In message of 31 Jan, Steven Pampling <steve.pampling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
>
> > > On 31 Jan, Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > It is perplexing as the copy command (the snipped part) had been set
> > > > to Force the copy. It is also perplexing as it means that COPY is
> > > > incapable of actually ... copying.
> > >
> > > Except that you mentioned that the file effectively involved an image
> > > filing system (the zip) and as such you are asking it to copy a file
> > > over a directory.
>
> > If it recognises that the item copied is a file, then it should
> > recognise that the destination is also a file: both have the same name
> > and filetype. (Or if one is a directory, then so is the other.)
>
> As per Martins answer - if it is a zip and SparkFS is loaded it is both a
> file and a directory.
Of course.
But it is the same object on both discs. When the copy command looks at
one it says it is a file and when the same command looks at the other it
says it is a directory. This is inconsistent - and is what I am trying
to point out. If there was no such inconsistency, copying could proceed
satisfactorily and my backups likewise.
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Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@xxxxxxxxx
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