Description of problem: During a 'restore -CV' to verify a dump, every single inode produces a message 'error in EA block'. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dump-0.4b39-1 How reproducible: Use 'restore -CV' to verify a dump file. Steps to Reproduce: 1. dump -0 -f dump.test /tmp 2. restore -CVf dump.test 3. Actual results: Lots of 'error in EA block' messages, and a final (possibly spurious) 'Some files were modified!' message Expected results: Additional info:
Ok, reproduced and confirmed. Comparision of EA is broken in all cases. Extraction of those EA is however not affected. The fix is a two liner: in restore/tape.c, in the xtrxattr() function, remove the test on Nflag. I've updated my EA patch to incorporate this and other changes (support in-inode EAs when using recent kernels and big inodes, provided a recent version of e2fsprogs is used), it is available from dump.sf.net (*). Jindrich, feel free to release a new version containing this patch if you want to. *: http://dump.sourceforge.net/dump-0.4b39-ea20050225.patch.bz2 Thanks, Stelian.
Stelian, thanks for the new patch. It's now applied and dump-0.4b39-2 is now built. Jindrich