Re: [Dump-users] RE: Dump HOWTO

[Stelian P. <st...@ca...>]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Bernhard Erdmann wrote:

> Stelian Pop wrote:
> [...]
> > Wouldn't that be that, for some reason, your DDS-2 drive is configured
> > for only a fixed blocksize of 32k ?
> 
> No, if I really set the drive to 32k blocks, dump slows down:
> 
> # mt setblk 32768
> # /sbin/dump 0a /tmp
>   DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Jun 27 11:37:09 2000
>   DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
>   DUMP: Dumping /dev/hdb11 (/tmp) to /dev/nst0
>   DUMP: Label: none
>   DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
>   DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
>   DUMP: estimated 114085 tape blocks.
>   DUMP: Volume 1 started at: Tue Jun 27 11:37:10 2000
>   DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
> 
> [waiting, waiting, tape drive's LED does not blink, nothing seems to
> happen]

You mean it's hanged ?

Maybe you should enable debug in dump (./configure --enable-debug)
in order to have some traces...

I wonder also if there is some way to enable traces in the st driver.

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