Re: [PATCH] xfsdump: use the full 32-bit generation number

[Bill Kendall <wkendall@xxxxxxx>]

On 01/07/2012 06:58 PM, David Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 02:09:25PM -0600, Bill Kendall wrote:
>
> > This patch changes xfsdump to use the full 32-bit inode generation
> > number.
> > A change to part of the dump format (direnthdr_t) was required, so the
> > dump format version has been bumped to 3. xfsdump also required
> > changes to
> > its inode-to-generation cache. This map is not persistent though, so no
> > compatibility or version changes were required there.
> I suspect that this does fix the problem. Since the fix is in the
> dump, not just restore, I guess I'll just have to start with a fresh
> level 0 and see if the failure ever happens again upon restore.
That's right. If you need to recover files from the backup that has
issues, try applying only your level 1 backup and select just the
files that failed to restore.

Bill