I have no suggestion Rohit,  But a question for developers.


> 
> Amflush output:
> -bash-2.05b$ /usr/sbin/amflush -f DailySet1
> Scanning /backup/amanda_hold/DailySet1...
>  20060216: found Amanda directory.
>  20060223: found Amanda directory.
>  20060302: found Amanda directory.
> 
> Multiple Amanda directories, please pick one by letter:
>  A. 20060216
>  B. 20060223
>  C. 20060302
> Select directories to flush [A..C]: [ALL] B C
> 
> Today is: 20060303
> Flushing dumps in 20060223, 20060302 to tape drive "/dev/nst0".
> Expecting tape TLS-Set-1-05 or a new tape.  (The last dumps were to tape
> TLS-Set
> -1-04)
> Are you sure you want to do this [yN]? y
> amflush: datestamp 20060303
> driver: pid 15642 executable driver version 2.4.3
> driver: send-cmd time 0.005 to taper: START-TAPER 20060303
> driver: adding holding disk 0 dir /backup/amanda_hold/DailySet1 size 2234040
> reserving 2234040 out of 2234040 for degraded-mode dumps
> taper: pid 15643 executable taper version 2.4.3
> taper: page size is 4096
> taper: buffer size is 32768
> taper: buffer[00] at 0x400d5000
> taper: buffer[01] at 0x400dd000
> taper: buffer[02] at 0x400e5000
> taper: buffer[03] at 0x400ed000
> taper: buffer[04] at 0x400f5000
> taper: buffer[05] at 0x400fd000
> taper: buffer[06] at 0x40105000
> taper: buffer[07] at 0x4010d000
> taper: buffer[08] at 0x40115000
> taper: buffer[09] at 0x4011d000
> taper: buffer[10] at 0x40125000
> taper: buffer[11] at 0x4012d000
> taper: buffer[12] at 0x40135000
> taper: buffer[13] at 0x4013d000
> taper: buffer[14] at 0x40145000
> taper: buffer[15] at 0x4014d000
> taper: buffer[16] at 0x40155000
> taper: buffer[17] at 0x4015d000
> taper: buffer[18] at 0x40165000
> taper: buffer[19] at 0x4016d000
> taper: buffer structures at 0x40175000 for 240 bytes
> taper: read label `TLS-Set-1-05' date `X'
> taper: wrote label `TLS-Set-1-05' date `20060303'
> 

Why is so much detail being shown to the user of amflush?
Do they really care about the taper buffers?
Do they really care that the driver is starting taper?
Aren't those messages more suitable for a silent log file 
or a debug file?

BTW driver seems like it is doing unneeded things for
an amflush, like setting a degraded mode, allocating
holding disk, ...


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