On Saturday 07 April 2007, dustin AT zmanda DOT com wrote:
>On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 01:38:12PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> What we are left with, when the linux kernel finally gets this patch
>> for good (its been reverted for now based on my findings, but its a
>> good patch, and really needs to be done at some point even if we do
>> have to play a little 52 pickup by doing an amanda restart from square
>> one, which will fix it when the patch hits production status)
>> we will have to treat amanda as if its a restart from square one,
>> slowly feeding it the big dle's, one per run.
>>
>> This is a case of being forewarned might be forearmed.  Not much else
>> we can do at this point.
>
>One possibility might be to work with the GNU Tar folks to write a
>script/app to convert the data stored in the list files.  Then the
>Amanda docs could warn about whatever kernel upgrade will trigger this,
>instructing users to run this script or app against their /gnutar-lists
>directories simultaneously with the upgrade.
>
>I'm still far from having a setup where I could test this sort of thing,
>but if their response to the idea is that it'd be too much trouble, I
>may be able to take a first swing at the script, if you (Gene) are
>willing to test it out.  I'm assuming the list file format is a fairly
>straightforward packed-record format.
>
>Dustin

I would be willing to try some of that, provided there was a 'leave it as 
it found it' option after the testing was done.


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