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Date:      Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:36:11 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Derek =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kuli=C5=84ski?= <takeda@takeda.tk>, Michael <freebsdports@bindone.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bin/121684: : dump(8) frequently hangs
Message-ID:  <200809011336.m81Da5BT046532@lava.sentex.ca>
In-Reply-To: <1188558750.20080901020711@takeda.tk>
References:  <48BB4FA6.2090708@bindone.de> <1188558750.20080901020711@takeda.tk>

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At 05:07 AM 9/1/2008, Derek Kuli=C5=84ski wrote:

>Now I'm honestly a bit scared about it (even if it will be fixed
>before 7.1, I'm not sure I'll hurry with the update).

There have been a number of commits to releng_7=20
that fixed dump issues for me.  A box that used=20
to regularly exhibit hung dump processes have=20
been working fine since April.  e.g. a kernel from
7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #4: Wed Apr 30

does weekly level 0 dumps and daily differential=20
dumps on the file systems below without issue
% df -i
Filesystem    1K-blocks      Used     Avail=20
Capacity iused    ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/twed0s1a   2026030    284346   1579602    15%    2937   279685    1%  =
 /
devfs                 1         1         0=20
100%       0        0  100%   /dev
/dev/twed0s1d   5077038    575828   4095048=20
12%    1197   658257    0%   /tmp
/dev/twed0s1e  20308398  11072840   7610888=20
59% 1065406  1572416   40%   /usr
/dev/twed0s1f  20308398  13275050   5408678=20
71%   13750  2624072    1%   /var
/dev/twed0s1g 246875258=20
186393906  40731332    82% 9118036 22794922   29%   /zoo

However, you should test and make sure it works for you.

         ---Mike

         ---Mike=20




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