From: Bill Kendall <wkendall@sgi.com>
To: David Brown <davidb@davidb.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfsdump: use the full 32-bit generation number
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:01:25 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F0AF335.5070905@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120108005822.GA32313@davidb.org>
On 01/07/2012 06:58 PM, David Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 02:09:25PM -0600, Bill Kendall wrote:
>
>> This patch changes xfsdump to use the full 32-bit inode generation
>> number.
>> A change to part of the dump format (direnthdr_t) was required, so the
>> dump format version has been bumped to 3. xfsdump also required
>> changes to
>> its inode-to-generation cache. This map is not persistent though, so no
>> compatibility or version changes were required there.
>
> I suspect that this does fix the problem. Since the fix is in the
> dump, not just restore, I guess I'll just have to start with a fresh
> level 0 and see if the failure ever happens again upon restore.
That's right. If you need to recover files from the backup that has
issues, try applying only your level 1 backup and select just the
files that failed to restore.
Bill
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-06 20:09 [PATCH] xfsdump: use the full 32-bit generation number Bill Kendall
2012-01-08 0:58 ` David Brown
2012-01-09 14:01 ` Bill Kendall [this message]
2012-02-05 13:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-06 17:40 ` Bill Kendall
2012-02-06 17:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-07 20:52 ` Bill Kendall
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