From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 15 8:26:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6707D37B400 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 08:26:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [216.194.193.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5FFA43E67 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 08:26:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from khera@kciLink.com) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [216.194.193.106]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 792AD2178D for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:26:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: by onceler.kciLink.com (Postfix, from userid 100) id 920463D07; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:26:22 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Vivek Khera To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dump / soft updates interaction? Newsgroups: ml.freebsd.questions References: <200207151352.OAA24785@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> X-Trace: lorax.kciLink.com 1026745668 52207 216.194.193.106 (15 Jul 2002 15:07:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: daemon@kciLink.com X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020517 (@kci) X-Razor-id: 0e7d35d4f46b713c1ba2e1747dc58bad939e41d3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "RT" == Richard Tobin 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