From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 16 3:33:46 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 5348E37B400 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 03:33:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail6.nc.rr.com (fe6.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC3BD43E5E for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 03:33:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([66.26.254.93]) by mail6.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Tue, 16 Jul 2002 00:23:31 -0400 Received: by this.is.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id D3A8FBB5F; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 00:23:25 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Vivek Khera , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dump / soft updates interaction? Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 00:23:25 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <200207151352.OAA24785@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020716042325.D3A8FBB5F@this.is.fake.com> 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 On Monday 15 July 2002 11:26 am, Vivek Khera wrote: | >>>>> "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. . . . or monted read-only . . . 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. -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message