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Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 22:46:27 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru>
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To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Shadowcopy volume block devices
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Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!

>> > Btw., as a sidenote, are you aware that you can access the filesystem
>> > underneath the volume shadow copy as well?
>> 
>> > Try this (note the trailing backslash!):
>> 
>> >   $ cd /proc/sys/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1/
>> >   $ ls
>> 
>> > The only downside is that you can't cd into the root dir of the
>> > shadowcopy by using a ".." expression:
>> 
>> >   $ cd /proc/sys/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1/Users
>> >   $ cd ..
>> >   /proc/sys/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1: Not a directory.
>> >   $ cd ../
>> >   /proc/sys/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1: Not a directory.
>> 
>> > Here the path handling strips off the trailing backslash and what's
>> > left is a block device called /proc/sys/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1.
>> > With that in mind, it's quite usable, though.
>> 
>> Can this be worked around by a symlink or junction point? (I don't have access
>> to SVC-enabled box yet, sorry.)

> How do you workaround the usage of ".." with symlink or junction?
> If so, you don't use ".." anymore.

Oh, sorry for the noise. While reading the end of your message I forgot, what
was in the beginning of it, it seems...


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 29.05.2013, <22:44>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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