Re: [ANNOUNCE] xfsdump 3.1.10 released

[L A Walsh <xfs@tlinx.org>]

On 2022/02/14 06:28, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 2/12/22 8:47 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
>>
>> On 2022/02/11 12:59, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>> Hi folks,
>>> because I don't want to stall on getting the fix for the root inode
>>> problems out there any longer. It's been ... quite long enough.
>>>
>>> Next release we can think about the dmapi junk, and possibly the
>>> workaround for the broken dumps with the root inode problem.
>>>
>>> This should at least be generating valid dumps on those filesystems
>>> with "interesting" geometry, again.
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>>
>> Thanks for the Cc.
>>
>>  As near as I understand your comments, this should generate new dumps that won't
>> have the problem I'm seeing, but will still leave previous dumps in the old format
>> that may show problems upon restoration.
> 
> Correct, I want to spend more time on the workaround to be sure we have confidence
> in it, sorry.
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	No need to apologize, Fixing the problem in stages is perfectly logical
Even if some existing dumps have inconsistencies in them, cutting off the source
of them will guarantee the number of those existing dumps will 
decrease, eventually, assuming recycling of dump-space to zero.  :-)