Re: rewinding a disk drive takes too long

From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih_at_rpi.edu>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 21:48:54 -0500
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?

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Received on Sun Jan 18 2004 - 17:49:00 UTC

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