Re: strange dump summary - can you explain this?

[John R. Jackson]

>?   DUMP: bread: lseek fails
>?   DUMP: short read error from /dev/sda10: [block
>-2122605784]: count=2048, got=0

This is typical of dumping an active file system.  In particular, if the
dump program knows it needs to read an indirect block of disk addresses
and the file is removed/reallocated and that block reused for data,
all those pointers (disk block addresses) are garbage and dump gets
real unhappy.

John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]