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 :-)

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| -- Richard
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