On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 5:59 AM, Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just went back through my emails from amanda for the last several days, and > its appears that the device mapper has struck again by using volatile > numbers. With 2.6.28-rc2, all the disks are now at a major device number of > 8, where they used to be 254.
Recall from previous discussions that this has nothing to do with the kernel version, but is rather a conflict between the Linux kernel's device-number policy and the assumptions older versions of GNU Tar make. > We need, as part of the footer where it says "Brought to you by version", the > uname -r output also, so we can more easily correlate amanda's upset tummy > with which kernel was running during the backup. > > Could this be added? Sounds like a great project. Patches welcome! Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
