Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 142525
Selinux extensions create lots of dump errors
Last modified: 2013-07-02 19:03:53 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: When trying to run dump on an Ext3 filesystem which supports the selinux ACL extensions I get a ton of errors from dump saying: DUMP: ACLs in inode #12 won't be dumped ..and this repeats for every inode. Having discussed this on the fedora mailing list it isn't much of a problem that the ACLs aren't stored since they can be retrieved with restorecon, but the volume of errors currently makes dump unusable. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dump-0.4b37-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Run dump on an selinux enabled Ext3 filesystem 2. 3. Actual Results: Lots and lots of errors Expected Results: Preferably that dump should retain and restore the extra ACL information, but more realistically in the short term a single warning in the output that ACLs are not supported rather than a separate warning for each inode. Additional info: I'm putting this down as a high priority since it's actually stopping us (and presumably others) from running our normal backup routines.
Those are NOT errors but warning messages, which are completly harmless. If the high amount of warnings bothers you, feel free to pipe the dump stderr output through 'grep -v "ACLs in inode"' or even comment out the printf in the sources. That being said, I am working right now on implementing EA support in dump (already done) and in restore (much more tricky). I plan on having an alpha version really soon now, but the changes to restore are rather intrusive so it will have to go through a beta test period before including it into the mainline dump. If you're interested in beta testing, just say so. Stelian.
BTW, the patch implementing EA support is available now from http://dump.sourceforge.net
Created attachment 108514 [details] Path to suppress the warnings Simon, please apply this patch if you want to get rid of these warnings.
Stellian, thanks for the quick response. Moving severity to low as it doesn't affect functionality of dump.
Just thought I'd add a comment to say that having used the workaround suggested I've got our backups going again and all seems to be well. I'll look at the new CVS version next week and report back with any problems. Many thanks for a quick response to this issue. Simon.
In fact you need both the CVS version and the dump-ea patch from: http://dump.sourceforge.net/dump-ea.patch.bz2 Stelian.
Resolving NOTABUG as the warning messages are not a bug but a feature.