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Date:      Wed, 29 Jul 1998 09:50:51 +0100
From:      Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
To:        Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Serious Dump problems
Message-ID:  <35BEE26B.4DB6542@tdx.co.uk>
References:  <19980728073523.02311@mcs.net> <199807281519.RAA12042@pat.idi.ntnu.no> <19980728102807.42807@mcs.net>

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Karl Denninger wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 05:19:47PM +0200, Tor.Egge@fast.no wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > I have an interesting one here...
> > >
> > > I have a dump tape which is intact, yet restore complains about "hole in
> > > map" and segv's when attempting to start up in interactive mode.
> >
> > Philip Inglesant <philip@dircon.net> gave a good description of this
> > problem on the -stable list.
> >
> > You probably had more than 4 million inodes on the file system.  Thus
> > the bitmaps uses more than 512 KB(i.e. more than 512 tape blocks).

This may be completely unconnected - but didn't someone mention a while ago -
similar problems when backing up a filesystem that isn't consistent (i.e. would
fail or need an fsck run on it)?

Regards,

Karl

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