From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 14 16:19:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA13265 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 16:19:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero-fddi.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fddi.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA13226 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:18:57 GMT (envelope-from shimon@sendero-fddi.simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 17971 invoked by uid 1000); 14 Apr 1998 23:28:18 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-040798 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <9804130153.AA22044@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 16:28:18 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Jean-Marc Zucconi Subject: RE: nightmare: dump/restore broken Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 13-Apr-98 Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: ... > I tried an old tape (2 months old): same result. ^^^^ Keyword. It is not dump/restore. It is the tape. Shall I guess DAT on SCSI? Since a while back, they only work with 512 byte blocks. Dump/re store do not know how to handle larger blocks... > I don't understand why the system files are ok, and this particular fs > is broken. > /dev/sd0a on / (NFS exported, local, writes: sync 153 async 1338)) > /dev/sd0f on /usr (NFS exported, local, writes: sync 29 async 579)) > /dev/sd0e on /var (local, writes: sync 179 async 479)) > /dev/sd1e on /home (local, writes: sync 59 async 230)) Probably has something to do with blovking factors. I can solidly lock up or crash the system with tape operations. Try cpio to two separate tape drives... total confusion with regards to biodone callbacks. ---------- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message