Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 12:36:05 -0700 From: Danny Howard <dannyman@toldme.com> To: Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dump / soft updates interaction? Message-ID: <20020715123605.J12520@pianosa.catch22.org> In-Reply-To: <bulk.52846.20020715082625@hub.freebsd.org>; from khera@kcilink.com on Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 08:26:25AM -0700 References: <200207151352.OAA24785@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <bulk.52846.20020715082625@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 08:26:25AM -0700, Vivek Khera wrote: > >>>>> "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. -current has a snapshot facility. In the future, I'd expect that you should be able to dump from a snapshot. -d To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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