In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Larry Sica wri tes: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Not sure if hackers is the correct place to ask about this but... > >On Friday, November 8, 2002, at 06:28 PM, Nick Rogness wrote: > >> >> We have a server that is doing some wierd things. /var/mail filesystem >> (/dev/idad2s1e) is reporting errors during certain tasks (like dump). >> It does fsck clean umounted. I have yet to see this type of error and >> can't tell whether this is a bug or a hardware problem: >> >> Nov 8 15:41:20 pop1 /kernel: dscheck(#idad/0x20014): negative b_blkno >> -791620152 >> Nov 8 15:41:20 pop1 /kernel: dscheck(#idad/0x20014): negative b_blkno > >I've seen mention of this before, not sure what the fix was. I heard >about this a few years ago on some quantam drives, the guy updated his >firmware and it went away iirc. Does it do this only when you dump or >under other circumstances? If other circumstances, which ones?
The fix is to not run dump(8) on a live filesystem. You should either use a snapshot or umount the device. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
