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From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: dump problems 
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> > 
> > the only indication I can see, is that one of the dump procs. is
> > waiting on
> > sbwait, and probably it's some deadlock, which is similar to what I
> > keep
> > seeing here, i'll try now with SCHED_ULE to see if it make a
> > difference.
> 
> 
> I'm running SCHED_ULE on these already, if your not I guess it's not the
> scheduler?
> 
I can get it to 'work' by fiddling with the b flag (blocksize), which still
points to some timming/deadlock problem.
ie:
	dump 0abf 64 /some/backup/file  /file/to/backup
now works, but
	dump 0abf 64 - | restore rbf 64 - 
hangs as before. (i don't think the b 64 in restore is needed).

danny