On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 08:52:09PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> anyone want to test why dump cannot dump THAT filesystem?
> 
> i have compressed image of this 40MB drive (after filling all unused parts
> with 0 to save space).
> 
> dump doesn't work from vnd too..
> 
> it just loops forever at pass 4 dumping files.
> 
> compressed size about 8MB

Sure, i'll take a look.

I'm seeing a similar intermittant problem when dumping about 15 GB
(on a 50 GB partition); dump appears to stall at around 60 - 62% of
the way through. Debugging this on a smaller file system would be much
easier.

Luke.