On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT
>net>
wrote:
>> And I, like an idiot, didn't notice we were discussing an NFS problem,
>> which may be another manifestation of the same problem, but that patch
>> does not address what happens when the linux device mapper decides to move
>> an LVM2 volume from 253,0 ro 254,0.
>
>The patch JLM posted won't fix it, but his proposed command-line option
> will.
Post please, I don't believe I've seen it. I had some email problems over the
weekend due to my / partition being in bad need of an fsck. 2.6.24 running
tickless was a friggin nightmare.
>> Thats why I'm asking about Schiling Tar, aka S-Tar. Does that fix the
>> problem?, and can amanda use it?
>
>Yes, but its semantics are very different from GNU Tar -- it's not a
>drop-in fix.
I was afraid of that.
>> The ultimate weapon of course in any philosophical war, which this is, is
>> to fork tar and fix it if STar isn't usable. At this point, and while I'm
>> not capable of doing it, I'm not a bit allergic to the fork idea. Its
>> bitten me so often that I'll alpha test anybodies efforts in that regard.
>> Gleefully.
>
>Sure, but threatening a fork is un-diplomatic, and not called for just
>yet. Let's start with a concerted public-relations effort :)
I doubt if my messages on the subject were the only ones they got, and from
the attitude displayed in the replies I got, a fork IS the next step. They
are immovable on the subject. They consider that a change in the device
mapping numbers are prima-faci evidence of a stolen tar file trying to be
recovered to a disk that they don't belong to. A huge security problem in
their view.
>> Humm, didn't we have some scripts that could inspect and repair the index
>> files when this happened? Probably lost when I woke up one morning and
>> found my well developed FC6 install wasn't re-bootable, LSN0 on /dev/hda
>> had one non-zero byte left in it.
>
>Yep -- it's called tar-snapshot-edit, and it's available in recent
>releases of GNU Tar. Just google for it.
I'll do that, got it.
Thanks, Dustin.
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
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-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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