From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Sep 16 17:44:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A54D637B422 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 17:44:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA01764; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 17:40:23 -0700 Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 17:39:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Guy Gustavson Cc: David Malone , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: bin/21253: dump/restore fail on any stream (tape/pipe/file) over 4GB In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I went and checked this also. Restore has no problems reading 8GB from standard input. It sounds like the only thing could be is something destroying the pipe. I think this PR should be closed. On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Guy Gustavson wrote: > Well I've tried about every method I can think of, including the ones you > suggested and they all fail after a certain size. I've given up using > dump/restore at this time and am using tar. > > If I can help in anyway assisting you in diagnosing this problem please let > me know. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Malone [mailto:dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie] > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 3:22 AM > To: Guy Gustavson > Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: bin/21253: dump/restore fail on any stream (tape/pipe/file) > over 4GB > > > > I tried that, I get different message, but it means about the same... > > > Changing volumes on pipe input? > > abort? [yn] n > > Changing volumes on pipe input? > > abort? [yn] y > > dump core? [yn] y > > Abort > > I think this can happen if the filesystem changes in a certain way > while being dumped - we think what happens is that the last inode > it was expecting to backup is removed while the backup is in > progress. > > We have some patches to improve the situation with the bad error > handling too, but I haven't committed them just yet. > > David. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message