Le lun 07/07/2003 à 20:07, [kevinc] a écrit : > http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4166 > > Product: glibc > Component: glibc > Summary: glibc/pthreads breaks Mondo Rescue with tape media > Product: glibc > Version: 2.3.2-4mdk > Platform: PC > URL: http://www.mondorescue.org/download/contribute.html > OS/Version: All > Status: UNCONFIRMED > Severity: normal > Priority: P2 > Component: glibc > AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Mondo is a truly amazing bare metal disaster recovery and > backup/restore program. It's capable of rebuilding a down system > via rescue media and a set of backup media. The result is a > completely usable system with recovered data, configuration and > devices. Basicly the system looks _exactly_ like it did at the > last backup. > > But, Mondo will not work with tape media on Mandrake as of > Mandrake's 9.0 release. I'm told that Mondo works fine with CD-R > media, but I can't realisticly backup 9-10GB of data onto CD-R. > The reason that the Mondo team gives for the problem is given on > http://www.mondorescue.org/download/contribute.html and repeated > here: > > Some of the latest Linux distributions contain severely > flawed glibc binaries and libraries. > > The default Mandrake 9.0, SuSE 8.0, SuSE 8.1 distributions > contain buggy glibc packages. If you find that Mondo does ... > One symptom of the problem is that doing the bare metal restore > fails and leaves the system completely unusable, needing to be > rescued by tomsrbt or similar boot floppy. > > It could be that Red Hat is enhancing their glibc/pthreads > implementation. I've heard rumors to that effect, and looking at > their package, I would suspect that this could be true. > > Thanks....
That's true, mondo is *really* usefull. We have used it for Mastering 150 Mandrake servers (Mdk 8.1) It's really easier than SystemImager, especialy when you only have one image. So, let's make it work ! PS: I'm not fond of glibc debugging / compiling, so I can't really help expect for testing.
