From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 3 19:59:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA28047 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 19:59:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from miris.lcs.mit.edu (root@miris.lcs.mit.edu [18.111.0.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA28016 for ; Sun, 3 May 1998 19:59:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beng@miris.lcs.mit.edu) Received: from miris.lcs.mit.edu (beng@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by miris.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA10604; Sun, 3 May 1998 22:59:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199805040259.WAA10604@miris.lcs.mit.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Tom cc: "David E. Cross" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network problem with 2.2.6-STABLE In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 03 May 1998 18:12:27 PDT." From: Benjamin Greenwald X-Sender: beng@lcs.mit.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 22:59:26 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > On Sun, 3 May 1998, David E. Cross wrote: > > > similar to (sorry I I did not write it down): "ping: no network buffers > > available", any telnet requet, etc would just hang indefinititely, the > > Not enough mbufs. Increase MAXUSERS or NMBCLUSTERS > > Beware, dump/restore is also broken for large filesystems. I personally > think that dump/restore should be dropped from FreeBSD. > > Tom It's been fairly well proven that dump/restore is by far the most accurate way of backing up one's filesystems. Dropping dump/restore would not only put a huge number of users in the lurch, but it would be eliminating the best tool for the job. I'm not familiar with the problems in dump/restore, but it seems to make a lot more sense to me to fix them rather than force everyone to change over to an inferior solution. Do you have a suggestion as to what we'd replace dump/restore with? (And PLEASE don't say "tar -g" ... *shiver*) Ben To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message