Re: xfsrestore dumps core on cumulative restore with -B (dirattr.c:945)

[ivanr@sgi.com]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Bernhard R. Erdmann wrote:

> > > I discovered a bug in xfsrestore 1.1.14 - it dumps core when the last
> > > level of a cumlative dump is restored using the option "-B" to set mode
> > > on . of the dumped filesystem.
> >
> > I couldn't reproduce the problem here, but judging by your core file, the
> > following patch should avoid the core dump.  I shall have a chat to Tim
> > (the xfsrestore expert) next week, and see if we can get a better solution.
>
> Seems to help. xfsrestore doesn't dump core using your patch.

Good.  We're still going to take a look and see why it was core dumping,
but I'll check in the patch anyway.

So in all other respects, is -B working now as you'd expect it to?


Ivan

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Ivan Rayner
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