I'm also affected by this bug. I'm running the 2.6.32-28 virtual kernel in a KVM host.
root@db-sec-slave:~# xfsdump -f /var/tmp/xfsdump /vol xfsdump: using file dump (drive_simple) strategy xfsdump: version 3.0.4 (dump format 3.0) - Running single-threaded ============================= dump label dialog ============================== please enter label for this dump session (timeout in 300 sec) -> test dump session label entered: "test dump" --------------------------------- end dialog --------------------------------- xfsdump: level 0 dump of db-sec-slave:/vol xfsdump: dump date: Fri Feb 18 07:16:25 2011 xfsdump: session id: 29d11b80-65f0-4dcb-91fc-6c0b46645941 xfsdump: session label: "test dump" xfsdump: ino map phase 1: constructing initial dump list xfsdump: syssgi( SGI_FS_BULKSTAT ) on fsroot failed: Invalid argument xfsdump: Dump Status: ERROR -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/692848 Title: Regression between 2.6.32-27 and 2.6.32-26 xfsdump SGI_FS_BULKSTAT errno = 22 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs