Re: Question...xfsdump error message?

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>]

At 04:21 15-2-2002 -0500, Mike Burger wrote:
>During my xfsdump jobs, I see this quite frequently:
>
>/usr/sbin/xfsdump: WARNING: failed to get valid bulkstat information for 
>inode 16849570
>/usr/sbin/xfsdump: WARNING: failed to get valid bulkstat information for 
>inode 17305709
>/usr/sbin/xfsdump: WARNING: failed to get valid bulkstat information for 
>inode 17363663
>/usr/sbin/xfsdump: WARNING: failed to get valid bulkstat information for 
>inode 17363664
>
>Can anyone tell me what it means?

They are harmless and can occur quite frequently on a busy filesystem 
during backup.

XFS uses a bulkstat to get information for a lot of inodes at once to speed 
up the process.

Cheers

--
Seth
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it was written and another for which it wasn't
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