[iyonix-support] Re: COPY aborting on Zip and CDImage files
- From: Dave Higton <davehigton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:24:47 GMT
In message <a238daae4e.tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
Do you have SparkFS running on one machine but not on the other?
Dave
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