Re: [Dump-users] rstdir* question

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

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 08:44:32AM -0700, Ken Godee wrote:

> I noticed during a "restore -C" while verifying a backup
> that restore ran out of space to write the rstdir* temp files.
> I'm using a ram disk (default 4 mb) to temp store these files "-T" option.
> 
> All though I'll probally just increase size of ram disk,
> (right now seems like 1mb per gig, guess/est.).
> 
> I'm wondering what happens when it runs out of space, it didn't
> abort and seemed to finish ok, but did it really?
> If not, shouldn't of aborted?

It should have. Looking at the code is seems like it should
have aborted with something like:
	"cannot write to file /tmp/rstdir..."
> 
> Does it just start some sort of buffering of these files?
> If not, couldn't it?

No, there is no buffering.

> My real concern would be during an actual restore, I'm
> sure the same would happen.

Do you use the latest version of restore ?

I will conduct some tests myself using some ramdisk as temp space
and see if I manage to reproduce it...

Stelian.
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