Re: WAPBL vs. dump(8)

[Juergen Hannken-Illjes <hannken%eis.cs.tu-bs.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 12:28:09PM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 02:26:26PM +0200, Juergen Hannken-Illjes wrote:
> > > expected next file 55, got 54
> > 
> > Just a guess: the log inode?
> 
> I've reinitialized all file systems on that machine with "newfs -s -64M".
> I thought it would not use an internal journal in that case.

Up to rev 1.2 of sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_wapbl.c there was a bug:

    When checking if there's enough space at the end of a partition,
    compare bytes vs bytes, not sectors vs bytes.

> > We could of course teach dump to ignore SF_LOG inodes.
> 
> That would probably make sense.
> 
>       Kind regards
> 
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> Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/

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