We upgraded one of our F740's from 5.3.7R1 to 6.0.1R3 a week ago. It went very smoothly, but there are a few things still puzzling me. Here is one of them...
Every time a dump command is run, at completion a new file appears in the filer's /etc, with a name like
/etc/oldmaps/bkp/A_home1/3abbe75d | | | \ This is the time(2) of the dump in hex | \ This is the "n" key from the dump command
Peeking at /etc/tmp while dump is running, and comparing inode numbers, it seems that these files are what was /etc/tmp/dump_all.bitmap.[n]. (There are several other files in /etc/tmp, but this seems to be the only one that is saved.) Its size appears to be 1 bit per inode in the volume being dumped, plus a little.
Are these files going to accumulate for ever? None have disappeared as yet, but maybe they will in due course... And what is their purpose in life?
Chris Thompson University of Cambridge Computing Service, Email: cet1@ucs.cam.ac.uk New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QG, Phone: +44 1223 334715 United Kingdom.