Re: Weird story with dump | restore

1999-12-19 Thread Vallo Kallaste
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 09:32:04AM -0800, Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sysctl -a | fgrep dirty sysctl -w vfs.lodirtybuffers=X sysctl -w vfs.hidirtybuffers=Y Matt, I've tried your patch to sys/kern/vfs_bio.c, made no difference. Lowering the vfs.hidirtybuffers

Re: Weird story with dump | restore

1999-12-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 09:32:04AM -0800, Matthew Dillon :[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : sysctl -a | fgrep dirty : sysctl -w vfs.lodirtybuffers=X : sysctl -w vfs.hidirtybuffers=Y : :Matt, I've tried your patch to sys/kern/vfs_bio.c, made no difference. :Lowering the

Weird story with dump | restore

1999-12-17 Thread Vallo Kallaste
Hello ! Something is weird with standard dump/restore procedure which I've always used to relocate my filesystems. I'm using 4.0-19991208-CURRENT on two machines, one is my home machine with SiS 5591 ATA controller and the other one has Intel PIIX. Home machine has disk pair Seagate 6.4GB and

Re: Weird story with dump | restore

1999-12-17 Thread Vallo Kallaste
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 10:47:59AM +0200, Vallo Kallaste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] It's very annoying, I have only fair experiences with dump/restore back to the 2.2.2 days until now. Sorry for the long post and partially? false alert. Something in my mind waked up and I checked what

Re: Weird story with dump | restore

1999-12-17 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 10:47:59AM +0200, Vallo Kallaste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] It's very annoying, I have only fair experiences with dump/restore back to the 2.2.2 days until now. Sorry for the long post and partially? false alert. Something in my mind waked up and I

Re: Weird story with dump | restore

1999-12-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
: suggesting following flags for filesystem creation for newer, bigger : disks: : : newfs -b16384 -f2048 -u2048 -c128 -i4096 : : I've used them since with no problems whatsoever. Now I got the dump : done on the machine with default filesystem, the bugger is unusual : filesystem I guess. Is it

Re: Weird story with dump | restore

1999-12-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
:The source filesystems were both standard with bsize 8192 and fsize :1024. Target filesystems were nonstandard. : :I umounted the source filesystem, in the exact case /usr (/dev/ad0s1e), :then mounted target filesystem to /mnt, cd to /mnt and : :dump -0a -f - /dev/ad0s1e | restore rf - :-- :

Re: Weird story with dump | restore

1999-12-17 Thread Vallo Kallaste
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 11:18:18AM -0800, Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try this patch to -current, it should solve the problem. I've been meaning to fixup the buf_daemon for a while. This solves the buf_daemon problem. We still will not be entirely optimal due to