Hi, I'm using Amanda to back up servers with XFS partitions, and from time to time I get messages like the following:-
| xfsdump: dumping non-directory files ? xfsdump: WARNING: failed to get bulkstat information for inode 58817725 I've looked at the details of this, and my understanding is that this results from a change on disk during Amanda's run. Some while ago, someone on the XFS list provided a patch for Amanda, to make this message go away by simply adding it to Amanda's list of "known safe" output from xfsdump. The patch is in the XFS mailing list archive at:- http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/mail_archive/200111/msg00642.html I've had a look at the 2.4.3 source, and this doesn't seem to be there, nor does anything similar, so I imagine that 2.4.3 will still complain when it sees messages like the above. I was just wondering if there's any concensus among Amanda users running XFS about this. What do most people do - just ignore them, or just apply the patch? Is the concensus that these errors really are harmless, and can be safely ignored, or does anyone have different information? Mike.
