> Can you tell me what kernel you were running again? Was is
> the 1.2 based
> release with a bit older dump and restore?
linux-2.4.20 (vanilla) with feb 04,04 xfs-all patch
xfsdump 2.2.3.
> Just reducing the options. Did you try using the newer userspace
> utilities, dump, restore, repair etc.
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will try 2.2.6 later...does it build on SuSE w/o errors yet?
There was some bit about it requiring 'curses' -- I just went through
and changed all the refs to 'ncurses'....
>
> Do you get a kernel panic/oops during the dump or is is
> xfsdump that bails
> out? You say it's the rootfs that you are trying to dump. It
> isn't shared
> out over NFS perhaps is it?
...checking...nope, but I do have it shared via SMB, though normally
it's not 'mounted' on any workstations it serves (only 1 active workstation
client right now, and I'm on it.
No kernel panic or oops but it flies by awfully fast. It's just
so darn unfriendly...since I can't really do anything other than
press reset at that point....Am in process of creating tbz2 archives
for the other partitions right now...dang bzip2 is ..slow...I only
have 6G of data, and its still cranking (backup ~3G so far)
> From: Chris Wedgwood [mailto:cw@xxxxxxxx]
> does xfsdump puke because it gets an error from the kernel, or does it
> barf internally?
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Hmm....it appears that something in the kernel driver thinks
that the disk is corrupt so it unmounts the root drive. xfs just
sorta exits... it flies by on the screen so fast and wasn't being
cooperative when I wanted to scroll back.
I wish there was a "pipe" mode where I could say, no, don't
buffer, and flush it every character. Inefficient as *bleep*, but
in some situations....
Actually, now that I think about it, if I pipe the output
to /tmp the pipe would already be open and its on a different partition,
so theoretically, the output should be saved, no?
> either way, are you able to see where this happens? (strace or gdb)
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Haven't tried strace...was hoping this bug would tickle someone's
"aha" button and it was already 'solved'....
I'll try to get more info ...but first need to rebuild the utils.
Darn redhat RPM's aren't compatible with SuSE. Maybe you could link it
using the downrev of GLIBC and cover both RH and SuSE? Just a thought.
-linda
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