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.

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