On Tuesday 20 March 2007, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Greetings;
>>
>> In my troubleshooting of the 2.6.21-rc* vs tar thinking the whole
>> system is new, where it works normally for any kernel up to 2.6.20.3.
>> I find I'm in need of an amestimate command, to have amdump survey the
>> system and report how much data (before compression obviously) that a
>> dump would generate, but without doing anything to the install other
>> than what it would normally do if it went all the way through the
>> estimate phase plus its scheduling calculations, reporting the results
>> and then exiting without actually doing anything.
>
>Run the 'planner', don't forget to run 'amcleanup' once the planner
> finish.
>
>Jean-Louis

Thanks, Jean-Louis.

It blew up again last night while running a 2.6.20.4-rc1 kernel, so that 
narrows it down to the 31 patches between a kernel-2.6.20.3 and 
kernel-2.6.20.4-rc1, a much easier bisect than the several hundred 
accumulated patches that separate 2.6.20 final from 2.6.21-rc1 where it 
blows up full time.  This will be VERY VERY helpfull.  I'm off to copy 
backup.sh to estimate.sh and modify it to do exactly that right now.

-- 
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