On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 10:52:47PM -0400, Todd Pfaff wrote:
> 
> Jean-Louis supplied me with a patch which I modified slightly
> and that I'm  now using.

He's good isn't he :))

> It turns out that some code in server-src/driver.c will allow a dump 
> to be retried indefinitely, if dumper returns TRYAGAIN and taper returns 
> DONE.  See around line 2203 in 2.4.4p3 server-src/driver.c.
> 
> ... .  But consistently with vtapes, if a client is
> alive during planning and was added to the schedule, and then this client 
> goes offline before the dump starts, this condition will occur whereby 
> dumper says TRYAGAIN, taper says DONE, forever until killed (or until 
> taper gets an error for some other reason I guess).

Interesting edge case.
Glad JLM was able to recognize it so quickly.

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