Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 22:11:01 +0000 From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: rewinding a disk drive takes too long Message-ID: <E1Ahyej-0000OI-5l@psg.com> References: <E1AhyYS-000MsZ-NH@psg.com> <200401172207.i0HM7r3l030743@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
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>>> How active was the file system that was being read by (r)dump?
>> not at all. it was a laptop with nothing active on it
>> except for the dump.
> OK; fair enough -- but I couldn't tell from your note, and "active file
> system" has been a plausible culprit in most such cases I've seen so
> far.
>> it did have X and gnome up. but it has 1gb ram, so should
>> not have been swapping or anything.
> :-)
btw, what i forgot to say was
o source system is current as of yesterday
o dest system is stable as of today
o until the last upgrade to the stable dest, dump would never
complete! it always got to the same point, 86%, and then hung
randy
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