From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id p5PH3fZ4128953 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 12:03:45 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 49C7A15E7609 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 10:03:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id QMdaoXa1FlnY3tEl for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 10:03:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QaWGe-0005Pz-9I for linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:03:36 +0200 Received: from s0106000acd1d509c.du.shawcable.net ([70.67.174.161]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:03:36 +0200 Received: from prad by s0106000acd1d509c.du.shawcable.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:03:36 +0200 From: prad Subject: xfsrestore seems to hang Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 09:59:38 -0700 Message-ID: <87oc1ln8xx.fsf@psinom.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com this seems to be a new development. in the past, i've xfsdumped my home directory as home.xfs in a separate partition on the same drive and have extracted a specific file without any difficulties. now i'm trying to do the same thing on an external usb drive which has the xfs filesystem on it. i can xfsdump to it no problem. then i try to restore: 1. cd into the directory /media/f6..... 2. mkdir tmp 3. xfsrestore -i -f home.xfs tmp/ 4. ls and cd to the right place - all work just fine 5. add the file i want to extract 6. extract things seem to be working: -> ls 77766469 kyron/ 131 pradmin/ -> cd pradmin/Public -> ls 1766125579 ipflush.sh 1766125536 iptables.sh -> add ipflush.sh -> ls * 1766125579 ipflush.sh 1766125536 iptables.sh -> extract --------------------------------- end dialog --------------------------------- xfsrestore: restoring non-directory files but it just hangs on the last line and we wait and wait and wait. top shows that xfsrestore is using 3% of cpu so something is happening supposedly, but i don't know what. inside tmp there are the usual directories: orphanage and xfsrestorehousekeepingdir but they don't want to go away (orphanage is empty) because the thing doesn't finish. i tried the same thing with a -V5, but the only difference seemed to be hanging on: xfsrestore:general: restoring non-directory files are there error logfiles somewhere? how can i troubleshoot this problem? -- in friendship, prad _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs