From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 29 01:51:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA14533 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 01:51:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA14508 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 01:51:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA02530; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 09:50:51 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <35BEE26B.4DB6542@tdx.co.uk> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 09:50:51 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b1 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Karl Denninger CC: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serious Dump problems References: <19980728073523.02311@mcs.net> <199807281519.RAA12042@pat.idi.ntnu.no> <19980728102807.42807@mcs.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Karl Denninger wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 05:19:47PM +0200, Tor.Egge@fast.no wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > I have an interesting one here... > > > > > > I have a dump tape which is intact, yet restore complains about "hole in > > > map" and segv's when attempting to start up in interactive mode. > > > > Philip Inglesant gave a good description of this > > problem on the -stable list. > > > > You probably had more than 4 million inodes on the file system. Thus > > the bitmaps uses more than 512 KB(i.e. more than 512 tape blocks). This may be completely unconnected - but didn't someone mention a while ago - similar problems when backing up a filesystem that isn't consistent (i.e. would fail or need an fsck run on it)? Regards, Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message