dump never ending?

[Brian McCann]

Upgrading to 7-STABLE seems to have fixed the problem.  Thanks Kris!

--Brian

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Kris Kennaway <kris at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Brian McCann wrote:
>
>
> > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Brian McCann <bjmccann at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I've got an issue on a new 7.0 amd64 box (first one I've setup with
> > >  amd64).  When I dump tiny file systems (24M and 12K for example), dump
> > >  runs file.  When I dump something larger (202M and 2G for example), it
> > >  hangs and stops writing.  The command I'm running is:
> > >
> > >  dump -0uan -L -f /mnt/tiw.root.dump /
> > >
> > >  It hangs weather I put in -L or not, and if I try going to a local
> > >  file system or one over NFS.  I do see the following in ps:
> > >
> > >  dump: /dev/amrd0s1a: pass 4: 80.10% done, finished in 0:00 at Wed Apr
> > >  23 11:48:28 2008 (
> > >
> > >  along with 3 other dump processes.
> > >
> > >  There's no "verbose" option for dump...so I can't quite see what's
> > >  going on.  Does anyone have any ideas on this, or has anyone seen this
> > >  before?
> > >
> >
>
>  What is the wait channel in which the dump process is stuck (press ^T).  It
> sounds like a kernel bug that was recently fixed, so you could just try
> updating to 7.0-STABLE.  I believe it is scheduled for release as an errata
> patch against 7.0-RELEASE too.
>
>  Kris
>
>



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