Re: xfsrestore assertion failure

[Ajay Shekhawat <ajay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 01:16:26PM -0400, Steve Roseman wrote:
> >   xfsrestore: seeking past media file directory dump
> >   xfsrestore: drive_scsitape.c:1461: do_next_mark: Assertion
> >    `rechdrp->first_mark_offset - rechdrp->file_offset <= ( off64_t )
> >   ( contextp->dc_recsz )' failed.
> >   Aborted (core dumped)
> 
> The following fix seems to resolve the problem.  xfsrestore -t works, at
> least.  (I'll try a real restore later.) I suspect the problem is in
> endian-converting first_mark_offset, maybe when it contains the value
> -1.  

We just encountered this assertion failure, in xfsdump v1.1.6.
Steve's fix does fix the problem and the restore proceeds, but
I'm wondering if the patch breaks other things. If not, should
the patch be in the official xfsdump distribution?

Ajay