On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 08:03:55AM +0200, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:
> Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE> writes:
> 
> > Yep. I used to see this pretty often in amanda backup logs on 1.6.x
> > and 1.6A..Z. It has become less frequent with 2.0, but still occurs
> > occasionally.
> 
> That's my experience, too.  Furthermore, it never happens on small
> file systems; the chance of dump hanging increases with fs size.

Could it be an issue with metadata being changed on the filesystem under
dump's feets ? With amanda dumps may run a bit slower (because he runs
several in parallel), and so such a race condition is more likely to happen.

BTW, I think dump should support using fss(4) to run from a stable device.
Adding this functionality to dump is on my todo list.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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