bin/121684: : dump(8) frequently hangs

[Mike Tancsa]

At 05:07 AM 9/1/2008, Derek Kuliński wrote:

>Now I'm honestly a bit scared about it (even if it will be fixed
>before 7.1, I'm not sure I'll hurry with the update).

There have been a number of commits to releng_7 
that fixed dump issues for me.  A box that used 
to regularly exhibit hung dump processes have 
been working fine since April.  e.g. a kernel from
7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #4: Wed Apr 30

does weekly level 0 dumps and daily differential 
dumps on the file systems below without issue
% df -i
Filesystem    1K-blocks      Used     Avail 
Capacity iused    ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/twed0s1a   2026030    284346   1579602    15%    2937   279685    1%   /
devfs                 1         1         0 
100%       0        0  100%   /dev
/dev/twed0s1d   5077038    575828   4095048 
12%    1197   658257    0%   /tmp
/dev/twed0s1e  20308398  11072840   7610888 
59% 1065406  1572416   40%   /usr
/dev/twed0s1f  20308398  13275050   5408678 
71%   13750  2624072    1%   /var
/dev/twed0s1g 246875258 
186393906  40731332    82% 9118036 22794922   29%   /zoo

However, you should test and make sure it works for you.

         ---Mike

         ---Mike