On Sun Aug 23 22:12:54 EDT 2009, aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net wrote: > ...: phase error -- cannot happen
i haven't ever seen this error. i would expect something like this minooka; lc ls: .: phase error -- directory entry not allocated if you are simply left with a directory that's been deleted. maybe something else is going on? > So, I found the files I lost in an older dump. > Is there any way I can load them from the > dump into the cache without having to copy > them back? > > I know bind is an option, but something more > permanent would be better in this case. i don't know if i can answer your question as it is without giving an answer that confuses the issue. a file can be on the worm, not in the cache *and* in the active fs. my version of the fs has the option to not copy anything to the cache. this is generally a good idea as the cache and worm are generally on similar disks these days. the active fs is everything accessable from the main fs without going through the dump. of course, if you ever delete or change something, there are files accessable only through the dump. the cache is mostly orthoganal to this. except that between dumps, modifications are in the cache, though they have actually worm addresses. this is why some blocks are usually lost on each dump. since the maximum allocated address on the worm is never adjusted down to account for deletions. so the only way to move a file that only exists in the dump to the active fs is to copy it. - erik
