On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: >On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The end of labor is to gain leisure.
