Re: Dump failure
From: Steven Maesslein (nobody_at_nowhere.invalid)
Date: 12/30/04
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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:56:23 +0100
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:28:20 +0000, Simon coughed into
comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc and left this in <BDF9C104.3893%ask@me.com>:
> DUMP: write error 4194340 blocks into volume 1
>
> Broadcast Message from root
> (/dev/ttyp0) at 14:17 GMT...
>
> Message from the dump program to all operators
>
> DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: write error 4194340 blocks into volume 1
> DUMP WRITE ERROR!
Could this be a 32-bit integer overflow issue?
The 4194340 you mention is suspiciously close to 2^32 / 1K,
IOW 2^22 = 4194304
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