Wojciech Puchar writes:
> after upgrading dump&libc to match kernel problem persist
> 
> 
>   DUMP: WARNING Label `*******************' is larger than limit of 15
> characters.
>   DUMP: WARNING: Using truncated label `**************'.
>   DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed Dec 19 22:09:05 2001
>   DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
>   DUMP: Dumping /dev/rwd0a (/) to /tmp/dump
>   DUMP: Label: polbrok.3miasto
>   DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
>   DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
>   DUMP: estimated 19145 tape blocks on 0.10 tape(s).
>   DUMP: Volume 1 started at: Wed Dec 19 22:10:04 2001
>   DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
> 
> until here all is right making about 320kB of data in output file
> 
>   DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
> 
> and now it start working forever giving no output.....
> 
> what's wrong. i'm using dump on 8 similar machines without problems

What does:

 iostat wd0 -i 1 | head -20

say while it's taking forever?

Later...

Greg Oster