From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 7 07:10:20 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 094AE16A420 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2007 07:10:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.189]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8522013C4A6 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2007 07:10:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b27so1889596fka for ; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:10:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=J+61LazKzeDX6gfa/ap8eZvq5X7v4Xe8BhVxSIEelurpLaO1phzN6Sw3/XR5aZMo7RAVXTF7qUDQpt+u4ikg7Zlk6b3AfIksgO1NfY6qHZS66OdvZ87/hYBFFGO2f39aOUje+twmKy3C+NsHni6+c4u2/txq6br+VTGSAIOAkb0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=k5uX3Wtap/rGq2DBSeSynGiXbptHegAXuB8SIMX46s2lSo/I4w00F7fNWpu0OlZzLlN30NxVvWzMNq8lalC1U2dKXX3W8GnfKP01LMMRHhhU/M3QokOQjHWqtl2RsTrMoVQe+/WxgP8RyrX4fe20OfEpikj05f2XMU8ksk0u08o= Received: by 10.82.181.10 with SMTP id d10mr6326734buf.1186470618026; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:10:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.185.5 with HTTP; Tue, 7 Aug 2007 00:10:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 02:10:17 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Victor Sudakov" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20070807015038.GA39353@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070724115401.GA1355@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <20070806025614.GA21368@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <20070806071857.GA23813@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <20070806110518.GA8074@epia-2.farid-hajji.net> <20070807015038.GA39353@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> Cc: Subject: Re: dump -L X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:10:20 -0000 On 06/08/07, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > > > > Does nobody know the answer, or am I the only one experiencing the > > > > > problem? > > > > > > > > I don't know the answer, but I get essentially the > > > > same behaviour. I have never seen any data loss, > > > > > > I gave an example below. The file "wins.dat" was not dumped. It is > > > indeed missing from the tape. > > > > > > If this is not a data loss, what is it then? > > > Not to perpetuate an argument for its own sake, but I suppose I meant "data loss" to mean the loss of files that _should_ exist, as opposed to files that _could_ exist. A fine line, but in my /laissez faire/ universe a quite salient one. As to whether wins.dat should exist is beyond me. If you believe it should, then that would be data loss by my metric. I apologise for any confusion, -- --