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Date:      Wed, 29 Jul 1998 02:38:13 +0200
From:      Tor.Egge@fast.no
To:        tlambert@primenet.com
Cc:        karl@mcs.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Serious Dump problems
Message-ID:  <199807290038.CAA29832@pat.idi.ntnu.no>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Jul 1998 22:09:34 %2B0000 (GMT)"
References:  <199807282209.PAA19411@usr04.primenet.com>

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> This is a very good catch.  I looked at this problem when it was
> originally reported several months ago, and it seemed to me that
> the only way it could happen were if there actually were a hole
> in the map.  The only thing I could conclude was that there was
> "something wrong with the data".

I had help (a very useful message posted to -stable).

I also had the opportunity to reproduce the problem, and the
inclination to fix it  (since I could become a victim myself).

> Is it sufficient to change restore?

Yes.

> Or is this patch going to result in part of the dumped data
> being inaccessable?

No.

> Is a change to dump *also* necessary?

IMO, not as long as we only want to use FreeBSD restore.

- Tor Egge

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