Re: Crash when copying large files

2011-09-13 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello Chuck! How big are your multi-GB files, anyway? They are approximately between 1 and 4 GB. If you want a workaround to avoid the crash, consider using either rsync or dump/restore to copy the filesystem, rather than using tar. Thanks for the suggestions, I'll try rsync. The

Re: Crash when copying large files

2011-09-13 Thread Toomas Aas
T, 13 sept 2011 kirjutas Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com: If you want a workaround to avoid the crash, consider using either rsync or dump/restore to copy the filesystem, rather than using tar. Just to let everyone know, rsync worked fine. Of course there is still some underlying problem,

Crash when copying large files

2011-09-12 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! I'm trying to move a filesystem to a new larger RAID volume. The old filesystem was using gjournal, and I have also created the new filesystem with gjournal. The FS in question holds the DocumentRoot of our web server, and in its depths, a couple of fairly large (several

Re: Crash when copying large files

2011-09-12 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:14:45 +0300, Toomas Aas wrote: Hello! I'm trying to move a filesystem to a new larger RAID volume. The old filesystem was using gjournal, and I have also created the new filesystem with gjournal. The FS in question holds the DocumentRoot of our web server, and

Re: Crash when copying large files

2011-09-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Sep 12, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Toomas Aas wrote: I've mounted the new FS under /mnt and use tar to transfer the files: cd /mnt tar -c -v -f - -C /docroot . | tar xf - You probably wanted -p flag on the extract side. The manpage recommends one of the following constructs: To move

Re: Crash when copying large files

2011-09-12 Thread Gary Gatten
ftp the large files, then tar? I like the rsync idea too. - Original Message - From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:cswi...@mac.com] Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 06:42 PM To: Toomas Aas toomas@raad.tartu.ee Cc: questi...@freebsd.org questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crash when copying