WARNING xfsdump [still] Cannot allocate memory for list of [root|non-root] attributes for nondir ino xxyz

[Dave Chinner]

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 06:10:55PM -0700, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
> 
> FWIW -- that bug I mentioned a few weeks back that I thought was
> gone in the latest CVS
> of xfsdump -- isn't.
> 
> It seems less frequent (maybe external attributes have been getting
> slow weeded out as
> they fail -- if it is random).
> 
> What's 'unique' about this dump -- I just copied from one partition
> to another, to resize the first,
> and this is on the copy back.
> 
> I.e. Stuff that xfs-restore just wrote has problems being read.
> 
> First problem was about 30 minutes into the 'copy'
> 
> Then about 2 more in the next half hour -- so not real often.
> 
> This is with kernel 2.6.34.
> 
> xfstools were downloaded a few weeks ago, so fairly recent.
> 
> xfsdump: WARNING: could not get list of non-root attributes for
> nondir ino 2428439: Cannot allocate memory (12)
> in @  108 MB/s, out @  0.0 kB/s,  116 GB total, buffer   6%
> fullxfsdump: status at 02:25:06: 918808/2250704 files dumped, 54.3%
> data dumped, 1800 seconds elapsed
> in @ 14.0 MB/s, out @ 14.0 MB/s,  123 GB total, buffer   0%
> fullxfsdump: status at 02:30:06: 975579/2250704 files dumped, 57.6%
> data dumped, 2100 seconds elapsed
> in @  0.0 kB/s, out @  0.0 kB/s,  135 GB total, buffer  14%
> fullxfsdump: status at 02:35:07: 1062278/2250704 files dumped, 63.2%
> data dumped, 2401 seconds elapsed
> in @  226 MB/s, out @  157 MB/s,  152 GB total, buffer  91%
> fullxfsdump: status at 02:40:06: 1191037/2250704 files dumped, 71.5%
> data dumped, 2700 seconds elapsed
> in @  0.0 kB/s, out @  0.0 kB/s,  169 GB total, buffer   0%
> fullxfsdump: status at 02:45:06: 1321397/2250704 files dumped, 79.2%
> data dumped, 3000 seconds elapsed
> in @  0.0 kB/s, out @  120 MB/s,  176 GB total, buffer  30% full
> 
> xfsdump: WARNING: could not get list of secure attributes for nondir
> ino 3929093: Cannot allocate memory (12)
> in @  0.0 kB/s, out @  118 MB/s,  177 GB total, buffer   7% full
> 
> xfsdump: WARNING: could not get list of non-root attributes for
> nondir ino 3929095: Cannot allocate memory (12)

Can you get a list of all the attributes and their sizes on the
inodes xfsdump is complaining about?

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com