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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dump has a wheat allergy
Date: 12 Jan 1996 23:20:15 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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npm@netcom.com (npm@netcom.com) writes:
> (Silly subject line, I know)
> 
> Dump is returning all kinds of errors when we back up a 3GB partition.
> The OS is 2.0.5.  That data seems to be fine, as far as I can tell,
> but the errors are alarming.
> 
> About 4500 lines of:
> 
> DUMP: bread: lseek fails
> 
> Is it because of the size of the file system?

Yes, and i seem to remember that this one has been fixed meanwhile.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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