From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 23 21: 8:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BD6037B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 21:08:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E73B43E65 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 21:07:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.5/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6O47ICV025561; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 21:07:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.5/8.12.4/Submit) id g6O47HZf025560; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 21:07:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 21:07:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200207240407.g6O47HZf025560@apollo.backplane.com> To: "Mark W. Krentel" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.6-RC: Glacial speed of dump backups References: <200207240157.g6O1v0534203@dreamscape.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :Matthew Dillon wrote: :> If the filesystem is idle you'll be O.K. w/FreeBSD. I do not :> know of any issues with Linux that make it any different from :> FreeBSD. If you sync a couple of times dumping an idle filesystem :> under Linux ought to work just about the same as dumping an :> idle filesystem under FreeBSD. : :The following sequence produces the problem for me in Red Hat 7.1. :You'll need a spare disk with a couple of unused partitions and mount :points for them. Let's say /one and /two. The filesystem wasn't idle and you didn't sync, so of course dump screwed up! It would probably screw up on a FreeBSD box too. -Matt Matthew Dillon :Anyway, my Freebsd question is answered and we're getting off-topic. :But if you ever figure out what's going on with Linux here and why :Freebsd is different, I'd be very interested to hear what it is. : :--Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message