On Monday 28 July 2014 11:00:25 Joi L. Ellis did opine And Gene did reply: > I've been doing some googling, and the rpc_pipefs is a > feature/function/product of nfs4. It's used for communicating between > nfs4 servers and clients and doesn't contain anything you need to back > up, it's all dynamically generated as part of client/server > interactions. I'd just put that --one-file-system parameter back on > your tar command and ignore the whole tree. I wouldn't attempt > restoring any of that data into a client filesystem, you'd just muck > up your existing nfs mounts.
I can do that, but how else can I kill about 60 lines of amdump/amreport mewling about the skipped links? > > -- > Joi Owen > System Administrator > Pavlov Media, Inc > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gene Heskett Sent: > Monday, July 28, 2014 4:09 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: [BULK] Re: Question on the one-filesystem option > > On Monday 28 July 2014 04:53:47 [email protected] did opine And Gene did reply: > > On Mon, 28 Jul 2014, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > However, in one failure path it quoted, there are no softlinks. It > > > simply did not like /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs, which actually goes 2 > > > or 3 levels deeper, encountering no softlinks as it goes. > > > > > > So I'm still standing here on my stump and proclaiming that tars > > > "--one- file-system" implementation is broken. And has been since > > > somewhere post 1.22. > > > > Hi Gene, > > > > There is a simple explanation for that: /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs IS a > > separate file system. On my system I have: > > > > $ df /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > > rpc_pipefs 0 0 0 - /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs > > > > $ mount | grep pipe > > rpc_pipefs on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw,relatime) > > > > So /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs is a mountpoint for a file system of type > > "rpc_pipefs" (whatever that might be). I'm pretty sure it is volatile > > and will be recreated automatically at start-up, so no need to back > > it up. > > > > Bob > > Crazy. There is no evidence of that shown by an ls -l being executed > anyplace in that tree. > > I'll do a similar df check on the other failure points. When I am > fully awake. No one would accuse me of that at 5am local. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS
