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

[Lars Soltau <l.soltau@xxxxxxx>]

Nathan Scott wrote:

> 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?
>  
Yes it is. I've read in the xfsdump man page that xfsdump only dumps 
mounted filesystems.
So if the geometry ioctl is failing, why can xfs_admin read the UUID but 
xfsdump can't? I guess I'll download the source for xfsdump and try to 
find out what exactly is the cause for the "invalid argument" error above.