Dump(8) hosed on CURRENT

Lukas Ertl l.ertl at univie.ac.at
Mon May 12 13:04:38 PDT 2003


Martin Blapp wrote:

> > > dump -C 32 -a0f dumpfile /usr
> >
> > Shouldn't you use -L when dumping live filesystems, especially with
> > such a big cachesize?
>
> Yes, I'm using -L too altough I'm in single user mode. I forgot it on
> the line.
>
> Heh, of course -L may be broken. Didn't thought that before.

I now did a test with dump -L on a live filesystem, and I've seen the
"file expected but not found" error, too. There's obviously something
broken, we should check if it's related to -L or if it happens always.

regards,
le

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