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From: David Brown <davidb@davidb.org>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: xfsrestore: incorrect restore if file becomes a dir
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 12:18:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111226201856.GA3909@davidb.org> (raw)

http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=915

I've had this happen again.  It appears to be the case if between
incremental dumps, a file is deleted and a directory is created that
gets the same inode number.  The restore leaves a file in place of the
directory.  If the new directory has any contents, xfsrestore prints a
warning, and doesn't restore the subdirectory contents.

Given the sparseness of inodes, this doesn't seem to occur all that
frequently, but I do have a couple of backups that exhibit the
behavior.  If no one has any ideas, I'll start digging through
xfsrestore to see if I can figure out what is happening.

Thanks,
David Brown

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             reply	other threads:[~2011-12-26 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-26 20:18 David Brown [this message]
2012-01-03 21:15 ` xfsrestore: incorrect restore if file becomes a dir Bill Kendall
2012-01-03 21:31   ` Dave Chinner
2012-01-03 22:43     ` Bill Kendall
2012-01-03 23:16       ` Dave Chinner
2012-01-04 14:56         ` Bill Kendall

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