support quality (Re: dump | restore fails: unknown tape header type 1853384566)

[Sean]

On 25/03/2009, at 7:55 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote:

> On Wednesday 25 March 2009 18:37:17 Bartosz Stec wrote:
>>> Yes, dump is broken for you, deal with it. It is quite possible  
>>> your FS
>>> is corrupt, and/or your disk is damaged.
>>
>> ..and/or it is some other hardware problem, maybe you also should  
>> test
>> your memory with memtest or something similiar? I'm using dump/ 
>> restore
>> very frequently and I had never seen such problem. Neither on - 
>> RELAESE,
>> -STABLE, nor -CURRENT.
>> So I think you should make sure that your problem is not
>> hardware/filesystem dependent before you point dump/restore as a  
>> couse
>> of the problem. Peter Jeremy already gives you good hints to do that.
>
> One other thing would be to make absolutely sure that your version  
> of dump &
> restore are in sync, the are very machine/version dependent.
>

And the system is compiled without strange CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf

Great way to cause inexplicable problems because an unsafe  
optimisation ran rampant, which is really noticeable when it's two  
programs that have to be in sync.


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