On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger <[email protected]> wrote: > As mentioned some time ago I would luv a separate > "mailto-human-tape-changer" ;-)
So Douglas is describing a "mobile-friendly" amcheck mail, while you're requesting a "next-tape-only" amreport mail. I imagine you'd also like a more advanced equivalent to chg-manual (maybe chg-human?) that can correctly prompt the user to insert a tape when necessary, and with some kind of feedback mechanism whereby the user can say "OK, done" or "No, I can't" None of these are particularly trivial, but they're all good ideas. A smaller amcheck is hard, because those messages are printed directly to a file handle from all over a rather long set of C code, rather than being condensed into some kind of report object which is then formatted into an email. A next-tape-only email makes sense, but it probably shouldn't come from amreport - it's already an abberation that amreport is guessing (and it really is just a guess) at what the taperscan will look for on the next run. So it might be good to factor that particular piece of code out somehow and add some additional code to amdump to send the next-tape email. The chg-human thing needs to be done eventually, but demand has been low and there are lots of tough design questions to answer first. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
