Re: xfsdump failure - failed to get bulkstat information for root node

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 02:15:20PM +0100, Lars Soltau wrote:
> I have installed SuSE 10.0 and created several XFS filesystems. I 
> cannot, however, backup any of them with xfsdump, getting this error:
> 
> xfsdump: using file dump (drive_simple) strategy
> xfsdump: version 2.2.30 (dump format 3.0) - Running single-threaded
> xfsdump: unable to determine uuid of fs mounted at /: invalid argument

Here's the first error - looks like a failed geometry ioctl -
is the filesystem being dumped a mounted XFS filesystem?

> xfsdump: level 0 dump of numenor:/
> xfsdump: dump date: Wed Feb 15 14:06:05 2006
> xfsdump: session id: 44d3fcab-20d5-49ec-8b88-8810d0114472
> xfsdump: session label: ""
> xfsdump: ERROR: failed to get bulkstat information for root inode
> xfsdump: Dump Status: ERROR
> 
> I booted the system from CD and checked all filesystems - xfscheck 
> reports no errors. xfsadmin can read the UUID just fine. Any idea what 
> might go wrong here?

cheers.

-- 
Nathan