The system is question belongs to an engineer as his personal workstation.
I really wanted a stand alone backup server so this solution is my preferred
one.  I think upgrading the 7.0 system to 8.0 or at least to a 2.4.19 kernel
would also have worked just fine.


Dana Bourgeois


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Brown [mailto:tom.brown AT goodtechnology DOT com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 11:45 AM
> To: Dana Bourgeois; amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: Re: Answering questions about Amanda on RedHat 7.0
> 
> 
> 
> > I recently posted a question about my attempts to get 
> 2.4.4p1 running 
> > on a RedHat 7.0 box.  I probably didn't mention that the 
> plan was to 
> > go
> tapeless.
> > This project didn't work and I can explain exactly why so 
> others won't
> bump
> > into the same wall I did.
> >
> > 2.4.4p1 compiles just fine on RedHat 7.0 which is a 2.2 
> kernel.  This
> kernel
> > doesn't have big file support.  The file: device also works great.  
> > The problem is that while you can create large *tapes* on disk, you 
> > can't
> write
> > large *tape files* on the tape since it is created in a file system 
> > that
> has
> > a 2G limit.
> >
> > I actually ran into this with the holding disk but used the 
> chunksize 
> > workaround to get past it without giving thought to what that meant 
> > later
> in
> > the process when taper was running....  I guess I was too 
> close to the 
> > problem and the errors pointed in lots of other places.  It wasn't 
> > until a coworker was asking about the problems and I 
> mentioned a list 
> > of DLEs with the problem and thinking of the list mused 
> "...in fact, 
> > almost everything larger than about 2 G is giving an error of some 
> > type."  This person suggested I run a test to see if a 2.2G 
> file could 
> > be created on the host and it could not which made the 
> problem rather 
> > obvious.
> >
> > Turns out that the problems all went away with SuSE 8.1 (kernel 
> > 2.4.19).
> >
> > In addition I can also verify that this same kernel has built in 
> > support
> for
> > the Promise Ultra 133 TX2 card and will support a 200G IDE drive 
> > (Maxtor Diamond Max +9).
> 
> why didn't you either upgrade the version of RedHat you were 
> using to something less ancient or just upgrade the kernel on 
> that box?
> 
> 
>