xfsrestore: incorrect restore if file becomes a dir
David Brown
davidb at davidb.org
Mon Dec 26 14:18:56 CST 2011
http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=915
I've had this happen again. It appears to be the case if between
incremental dumps, a file is deleted and a directory is created that
gets the same inode number. The restore leaves a file in place of the
directory. If the new directory has any contents, xfsrestore prints a
warning, and doesn't restore the subdirectory contents.
Given the sparseness of inodes, this doesn't seem to occur all that
frequently, but I do have a couple of backups that exhibit the
behavior. If no one has any ideas, I'll start digging through
xfsrestore to see if I can figure out what is happening.
Thanks,
David Brown
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