At 11:13 PM +0100 1/17/04, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >In message <E1Ahyej-0000OI-5l_at_psg.com>, Randy Bush writes: > > >>btw, what i forgot to say was >> o source system is current as of yesterday >> o dest system is stable as of today > > o until the last upgrade to the stable dest, dump would > > never complete! it always got to the same point, 86%, > > and then hung > >This is actually a pretty normal thing, dump is not very good at >predicting the size of a dump if the filesystem is live (and I >belive in a few other circumstances as well) > >Largest number I've seen recently was -250% :-) Why would dump have trouble predicting the size of a "L" filesystem? If "L" is specified (and it apparently was in this example), then wouldn't dump be working off of a static snapshot of the filesystem? -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad_at_gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad_at_freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih_at_rpi.eduReceived on Sun Jan 18 2004 - 17:49:00 UTC
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