From: Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dump / soft updates interaction? References: <200207151352.OAA24785@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
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>>>>> "RT" == Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> writes: >> Yes. You need to wait for the system to "settle down" before dumping. RT> Is there any way to wait until a soft-update filesystem is up-to-date - RT> something like sync (which doesn't wait for soft updates to complete). RT> Of course you can unmount and remount, but that's not always possible. The *only* way to guarantee a level 0 dump is complete and accurate is to do it with the file system unmounted. For me, that is pretty much not possible to do (I hate scheduling downtime when I'm awake since it affects many other users... and I hate waking up at 2am to do it). Thus, I just live with possibly inconsistent dumps. Such is life. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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