Bug 35607
| Summary: | dump(1) page needs discussion of scary error-ignoring bug. | ||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Gary W. Swearingen <swear> |
| Component: | Books & Articles | Assignee: | kensmith |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | Latest | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-doc->kensmith Sorry for the delay. I'll try to take care of this. FYI, I think the code seems to say dump will stop, asking for operator intervention, only after 32 bread errors but it prints warning messages about all bread errors it encounters while running. State Changed From-To: open->closed Added explanation of why dump(8) allows for 32 read errors. |
The "Bugs" section's first paragraph is: Fewer than 32 read errors on the filesystem are ignored. This is just too scary and needs some explanation so that users may make an informed decision whether to use this for backup or not, how much it may be trusted, why 32 errors is no big deal, etc. ================ Fix: Research the facts and then write a replacement for the above "Bugs" paragraph. How-To-Repeat: n/a ================