Craig Spiers wrote: > How did you create the storage using DD ?
dd if=/dev/zero of=/backup/oops_storage bs=1m count=1024 Then don't forget oops -z, of course. That file is on an FFS partition with Soft-updates enabled. Performance is very good. > Do you get this in oops.log > > Sat May 25 19:08:11 2002 [0x402]check_storage(): Checking storage > /dev/raw/raw1 > Sat May 25 19:08:11 2002 [0x402]check_storage(): Super: 3145728 total > Sat May 25 19:08:11 2002 [0x402]check_storage(): 3145631 free > Sat May 25 19:08:11 2002 [0x402]check_storage(): 4096 blk size > Sat May 25 19:08:11 2002 [0x402]check_storage(): deadfeed - magic > Sat May 25 19:08:11 2002 [0x402]check_storage(): Read map. > Sat May 25 19:08:11 2002 [0x402]check_storage(): Can't read map 393216 to > 4166f008: 0, Invalid argument. No, mine looks like this: Sat May 25 03:04:29 2002 [0x80f7c00]check_storage(): Checking storage /backup/oops_storage Sat May 25 03:04:29 2002 [0x80f7c00]check_storage(): Super: 262144 total Sat May 25 03:04:29 2002 [0x80f7c00]check_storage(): 262135 free Sat May 25 03:04:29 2002 [0x80f7c00]check_storage(): 4096 blk size Sat May 25 03:04:29 2002 [0x80f7c00]check_storage(): deadfeed - magic Sat May 25 03:04:29 2002 [0x80f7c00]check_storage(): Read map. Sat May 25 03:04:29 2002 [0x80f7c00]check_storage(): Done. Sat May 25 03:04:29 2002 [0x80f7c00]check_storage(): Done with it. Sat May 25 03:04:29 2002 [0x80f7c00]check_storage(): Found 262135 free blocks in map, 262135 in superblock Sat May 25 03:04:29 2002 [0x80f7c00]check_storage(): Free list ok. Sat May 25 03:04:29 2002 [0x80f7c00]init_storage(): Build seg map. Sat May 25 03:04:29 2002 [0x80f7c00]init_storage(): Storage /backup/oops_storage ready. Sat May 25 03:04:29 2002 [0x80f7c00]prep_storages(): Storages checked. What exactly is "/dev/raw/raw" in your setup? Sounds like a raw partition. Did you try using a file in a standard file system, does that work? Best Regards Oliver Fromme -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 M�nchen Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) ===================================================================== If you would like to unsubscribe from this list send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe oops-eng" in message body. Archive is accessible on http://lists.paco.net/oops-eng/
