Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 09:38:48 -0400 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dump / soft updates interaction? Message-ID: <20020715133849.17E01BB2C@sakura.fake.com> In-Reply-To: <200207151323.OAA23589@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> References: <200207151323.OAA23589@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
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On Monday 15 July 2002 09:23 am, Richard Tobin wrote:
| I deleted some files immediately before dumping a filesystem. When I
| checked the dump with "restore rN" I got several "cannot find
| directory inode xxx" messages. I dumped again, and the dump file
| was slightly smaller and produced no such messages.
|
| Is this likely to be caused by soft updates in effect making the
| filesystem active for some time after making changes?
Yes. You need to wait for the system to "settle down" before dumping.
On the other hand, there's no *problem* really with the first dump, just
don't get freaked out at the messages :-)
|
| -- Richard
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