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. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
