On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 06:27:35PM +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> On Monday 09 February 2009 18:05:31 Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 05:57:56PM +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > > On Monday 09 February 2009 17:27:41 Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 04:58:02PM +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > > > > These kinds of errors are not good as I said before.  Something is
> > > > > going wrong.
> > > > >
> > > > > It seems to me that you are writing to network mounted Volumes.
> > > > > Please remind me if this is the case.  If it is, I am not willing to
> > > > > spend any time on this unless you can reproduce it on a locally
> > > > > mounted Volumes.
> > > > >
> > > > > Bacula does a lot of seeking around (forwards and backwards) on
> > > > > Volumes, and network mounted filesystems in my experience (both Samba
> > > > > and NFS) do not properly implement standard Unix filesystem calls
> > > > > (Samba does opportunistic locking so data is inconsistent on the two
> > > > > sides, which is absurd IMO; and NFS at a minimum does not implement
> > > > > ftruncate; one or both are or were limited to 4GB addresses -- who
> > > > > knows what other horrors are in their code). Doing a simple copy or a
> > > > > simple sequential read will surely work, but I'm not sure they can
> > > > > handle Bacula.
> > > >
> > > > I'm using ext3 on iSCSI LUN. So all the filesystem operations work just
> > > > like with locally attached storage.
> > > >
> > > > I don't have any SCSI/iSCSI errors in dmesg/syslog..
> > >
> > > So unless I am mistaken, it is a network mount involving a network
> > > driver.  If that is the case, my previous comments still apply.  If you
> > > can reproduce the problem on a local disk, then we can dig into it
> > > futher.
> >
> > Well, yes, there's network driver involved.. it's software iSCSI.
> >
> > I'll see if I can hook up some local storage and try to reproduce then..
> 
> OK
> 
> >
> >
> >   SD Errors:              0
> >   SD termination status:  OK
> >   Termination:            Copying OK
> >
> > How about that? I guess I should file a bug report about it..
> 
> Yes, please, otherwise it could get lost in the enormous pile of things ...
> 

Yep, reported as bug 1242.

-- Pasi

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