Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 17:37:32 +0100 From: phk@freebsd.org To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org, mckusick@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strange dump/restore behaviour Message-ID: <15148.1042130252@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Jan 2003 16:41:10 %2B0100." <xzphecifi09.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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I've seen this when dumping live filesystems. I belive it means that dump couldn't find the file it had already dumped in the directory once it got to dump the contents. In message <xzphecifi09.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: >This happened while copying data over to a new disk (mounted on /mnt >and /mnt/usr; the original disk has only one partition). The machine >was in single-user mode, but / was mounted read-write due to restore's >insistance on placing temporary files in /tmp (I found out later that >it respects TMPDIR, though the man page doesn't mention it). > >root@dsa /mnt# dump -0Laf- / | restore -rf- > DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Jan 9 16:11:42 2003 > DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch > DUMP: Dumping snapshot of /dev/da0a (/) to standard output > DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] > DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] > DUMP: estimated 1838856 tape blocks. > DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] > DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] >warning: ./usr: File exists >expected next file 4, got 3 >[...] > >I can imagine that the file that caused the warning message was one of >restore's temporary files, but a) I've never seen this before, and b) >isn't -L supposed to prevent just that? > >DES >-- >Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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