Hi David,

With the freeze only three weeks away, I thought I nudge you about this
one as it is quite important for the proper functioning of Mondo Rescue.

Hope that's ok. ;-)

Best regards,
Andree


On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 20:45 +0200, David Martínez Moreno wrote:
> El lunes, 28 de agosto de 2006 12:08, Andree Leidenfrost escribió:
> > Hi David,
> >
> > Package mondo, which I maintain, uses ntfsclone to backup NTFS partitions.
> > It does so via outputting the file to a FIFO where another thread waits to
> > chop it up into chunks. The FIFO is created in /tmp. This works generally
> > fine.
> >
> > However, ntfsclone checks the space in /tmp where the FIFO is created to
> > find out whether there is enough free space to accomodate the output file
> > created, which can lead to the following error:
> [...]
> > The attached patch makes it so that ntfsclone will not check for free space
> > in case the output file is a FIFO. I have tried to make things as
> > unobtrusive as possible and hope you find the patch acceptable. In case you
> > would like me to change anything, please let me know and I will happily
> > amend and resend.
> 
>       Hello, Andree.  Your patch is very good, thank you.
> 
>       I also agree with you that free space should not be checked in this 
> situation.
> 
>       I am going to apply it and release a new version in a few days.
> 
>       Best regards,
> 
> 
>               Ender.
-- 
Andree Leidenfrost
@ Debian Developer
Sydney - Australia

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