On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 02:21:43PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 05:03:28PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:33:30AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> > > > I hope I guessed the right syntax...
> > > > % pg_filedump -R 71716 data/base/17148/283342
> > >
> > > Yes, but this doesn't give all the available info. Add -i and -f
> > > options. A plain -d dump might be interesting too.
> >
> > Indeed, the plain -d dump says that I have a chunk of /var/mail/prlw1
> > in 1000-13ff. No wonder postgres complained!
>
> For the record, what filesystem is this on? Is it ReiserFS by any
> chance?
Nope, ffs with soft dependencies, on a 1 month old IDE drive (read not
yet known good...) Hmm maybe I'd better ask over on the NetBSD list,
though I think my kernel is from just before ide rototill which was actually
on atapi rather than straight ide AFAICT, and certainly before gcc 3.3.1,
so the duff hardware scenario seems best..
Cheers,
Patrick
