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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 14:17:47 +0200
To: "P.Dixon" <P.Dixon@qmw.ac.uk>, <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>
From: Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: NFS crash ... xfsdump?
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At 12:49 11-6-2001 +0100, P.Dixon wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Whilst running xfsdump on our serve, NFS crashed and couldn't be
>restarted. The output from /var/log/messages is shown below. I've read
>that ext2dump shouldn't be used with 2.4 kernels - does this apply to
>xfsdump?
>
>Any time I see a NULL pointer being de-referenced, I get worried...
>
>I am running kernel-smp-2.4.2-SGI_XFS_1.0 from the Red Hat 7.1 SGI XFS
>install CD.

I recommend getting the 2.4.5 or 2.4.6pre1 patch from the oss.sgi.com FTP 
server and rebuilding your linux kernel. I don't know if CVS is a 100 
Percent a the moment.

There have been fixes in the development tree for dumping on a active 
system and NFS.

If you can reproduce it using a more up to date tree we would be most grateful.

Cheers

--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.