dump never ending?

[Kris Kennaway]

Brian McCann wrote:
> Upgrading to 7-STABLE seems to have fixed the problem.  Thanks Kris!

Great!

Kris

> --Brian
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> 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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