Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!harvard!spdcc!eplunix!das From: das@eplunix.UUCP (Dave Steffens) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd Subject: 4.[23]bsd dump misses last inode (RETRACTION) Message-ID: <358@eplunix.UUCP> Date: Mon, 22-Jun-87 22:48:22 EDT Article-I.D.: eplunix.358 Posted: Mon Jun 22 22:48:22 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 25-Jun-87 02:07:23 EDT References: <350@eplunix.UUCP> <8706181839.AA14748@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: Eaton-Peabody, Mass. Eye & Ear Lines: 36 Keywords: 4bsd Ultrix dump inode bug fix retraction Summary: do NOT install this fix The following bug fix to src/etc/dump/dumptraverse.c is hereby RETRACTED for 4.2bsd and 4.3bsd. Do NOT apply this fix -- it is NOT correct! The bug *does* exist in Ultrix 1.1 dump. I'm not sure about later versions of Ultrix. See follow-up postings for additional details. In article <350@eplunix.UUCP> to comp.bugs.4bsd I wrote: > src/etc/dump/dumptraverse.c 4.2bsd 4.3bsd Ultrix FIX > > This bug was found in dump(8) on Ultrix 1.1 but is known > to be present in dump(8) on 4.2bsd and 4.3bsd as well. > > The highest-numbered inode (maxino) on a filsys is _never_ > written to tape by dump(8) because someone had a problem > with the range of a for-loop (see Fix, below). Maxino is > calculated correctly, but the for-loop test clause is written > incorrectly such that dump(8) stops processing inodes at maxino-1. This fix was also reported in article <8706181839.AA14748@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU> to comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes by bostic@OKEEFFE.BERKELEY.EDU (Keith Bostic) as: > Subject: V1.28 (dump fails to write highest numbered inode to tape) Keith's posting was presumably based on my earlier posting. I have notified Berkeley that my original posting was in error and I hope a retraction will soon be forthcoming from them as well. Apologies to everyone who has been inconvenienced by my mistake and most especially to Kirk McKusic and Keith Bostic. -- {harvard,mit-eddie,think}!eplunix!das David Allan Steffens 243 Charles St., Boston, MA 02114 Eaton-Peabody Laboratory (617) 573-3748 Mass. Eye & Ear Infirmary