On Monday 15 July 2002 09:23 am, Richard Tobin wrote: | I deleted some files immediately before dumping a filesystem. When I | checked the dump with "restore rN" I got several "cannot find | directory inode xxx" messages. I dumped again, and the dump file | was slightly smaller and produced no such messages. | | Is this likely to be caused by soft updates in effect making the | filesystem active for some time after making changes?
Yes. You need to wait for the system to "settle down" before dumping. On the other hand, there's no *problem* really with the first dump, just don't get freaked out at the messages :-) | | -- Richard | | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message