on 9-7-2008 10:53 PM Kenneth Porter spake the following:
I'm backing up to a NTFS partition on an external USB drive with dump. I'm seeing failures in /var/log/messages reading sector 0xFFFFFFF that cause the verify pass to fail. Are there any known problems in the USB driver?
Kernel via uname -a:
<snip> This isn't paid 24x7 support! You need to wait more than a few hours before you re-pound (I mean resend) your message.
More than likely it is a problem with the Linux reverse engineered support for a Windows proprietary file system. Why back up to NTFS?