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Date: 06 Mar 2002 15:37:30 -0800
From: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>
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Subject: dump(1) page needs discussion of scary error-ignoring bug.
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>Number:         35607
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       dump(1) page needs discussion of scary error-ignoring bug.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    kensmith
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Mar 06 15:40:01 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:    Wed Nov 05 14:22:58 PST 2003
>Last-Modified:  Wed Nov 05 14:22:58 PST 2003
>Originator:     Gary W. Swearingen
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
n/a
================
>Description:

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.
================
>How-To-Repeat:
n/a
================
>Fix:

Research the facts and then write a replacement for the above
"Bugs" paragraph.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->kensmith 
Responsible-Changed-By: kensmith 
Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Oct 24 12:34:58 PDT 2003 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  

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. 


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=35607 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: kensmith 
State-Changed-When: Wed Nov 5 14:22:19 PST 2003 
State-Changed-Why:  

Added explanation of why dump(8) allows for 32 read errors. 


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=35607 
>Unformatted:
