strange behavior of restore(8)

David Brodbeck gull at gull.us
Fri Oct 21 16:55:57 UTC 2011


On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Victor Sudakov <vas at mpeks.tomsk.su> wrote:
> Colleagues,
>
> I am trying to restore a UFS2 zero level dump sized about 51G.
> restore has created 6105 directories and no files at all, and now is
> waiting forever in the runnable state.

I don't have any specific advice here, but if it were me I think my
next troubleshooting step would be to attach truss to the restore
process after it gets "stuck," to try to see exactly what it's doing.
That may give you a clue as to why it's taking so long and whether
it's actually making any progress.


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