From: Timothy Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
To: Xavier Poirier <xpoirier@ch-bourg01.fr>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Update of XFSPROG XFSDUMP on linux kernel 2.4.22
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:05:57 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47E86C15.3080009@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1205842046.47dfb07ede86d@hermesadm.chb.fr>
Xavier Poirier wrote:
> Hi all XFS ML Users !
>
> I'm Xavier from France.
>
> I had installed two years ago a linux server with 2 XFS Partitions.
>
> All is working like a charm !
>
> * Except,
>
> xfsrestore command, that is often crashing (one time on two) with a dump file of 35Go
>
>
> Here is my versions descriptions:
>
> - Linux Mandrake 9.2 kernel 2.4.22
> - XFSDUMP 2.2.13
> - XFSDUMP 2.5.4 (installed by RPM)
>
>
> My question is :
>
> Is it better to update the XFS programs to newer versions, or update my linux kernel,
> to avoid problems ?
>
As Hannes Dorbath said, probably both.
The dump format hasn't changed so you can try a new xfsrestore
if that is less painful for you.
If the new xfsrestore crashes then you can report the bug with
details on how it crashes.
> I've tryed to find some older distribs of xfsdump, but without succes (like 2.2.33)
> the most recent distribs fails with the configure at manual install ...
>
I wouldn't go for older versions of dump/restore.
--Tim
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-25 3:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-18 12:07 Update of XFSPROG XFSDUMP on linux kernel 2.4.22 Xavier Poirier
2008-03-22 14:10 ` Hannes Dorbath
2008-03-25 3:05 ` Timothy Shimmin [this message]
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