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has caused the report #583093,
regarding restore -P creates useless index for compressed dumps
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Stelian,
Here's another one that unfortunately has been sitting for a while
without being forwarded to you.
Bdale
On Tue, 25 May 2010 12:29:57 +0100, Mark Wooding <[email protected]> wrote:
> Package: dump
> Version: 0.4b41-6
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
>
>
> To reproduce: make a compressed dump of a filesystem:
>
> # dump -0 -fdump -z /var
> [...]
>
> Now generate a QFA index:
>
> $ restore -Pqfa -fdump -v -a
> Verify tape and initialize maps
> Input is from a local file/pipe
> Input block size is 10
> Dump tape is compressed.
> Dump date: Mon May 24 21:42:31 2010
> Dumped from: the epoch
> Level 0 dump of /var on metalzone:/dev/mapper/vg-var
> Label: var
> writing QFA positions to qfa2
> Extract directories from tape
> Initialize symbol table.
> Extract requested files
>
> Inspect the `qfa' file; notice that the `tapepos' column only contains
> zero.
>
> Digging through the source code, I think that the functions
> `readtape_comprfile' and `readtape_comprtape' are missing the `#ifdef
> USE_QFA' snippet which was added to `readtape_uncompr'.
>
> The following patch appears to work, but I'm really not particularly
> confident in my understanding of the `restore' source and I've only
> conducted superficial testing (I haven't tested the `comprtape' code-
> path at all, because I don't have a tape drive).
>
> diff --git a/restore/tape.c b/restore/tape.c
> index c74e390..2696b1d 100644
> --- a/restore/tape.c
> +++ b/restore/tape.c
> @@ -2068,6 +2068,10 @@ readtape_comprfile(char *buf)
> ((struct s_spcl *)&tapebuf[i * TP_BSIZE])->c_magic = 0;
> numtrec = ntrec;
> tpb = (struct tapebuf *) tapebuf;
> +#ifdef USE_QFA
> + if (createtapeposflag)
> + (void)GetTapePos(&curtapepos);
> +#endif
>
> /* read the block prefix */
> ret = read_a_block(mt, tapebuf, PREFIXSIZE, &rl);
> @@ -2157,6 +2161,10 @@ readtape_comprtape(char *buf)
> ((struct s_spcl *)&tapebuf[i * TP_BSIZE])->c_magic = 0;
> numtrec = ntrec;
> tpb = (struct tapebuf *) tapebuf;
> +#ifdef USE_QFA
> + if (createtapeposflag)
> + (void)GetTapePos(&curtapepos);
> +#endif
>
> /* read the block */
> size = bufsize + PREFIXSIZE;
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.9 (PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
> Versions of packages dump depends on:
> ii e2fslibs 1.41.11-1 ext2/ext3/ext4 file system
> librari
> ii libblkid1 2.16.2-0 block device id library
> ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared
> lib
> ii libcomerr2 1.41.11-1 common error description library
> ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for terminal
> hand
> ii libreadline5 5.2-7 GNU readline and history
> libraries
> ii libuuid1 2.16.2-0 Universally Unique ID library
> ii tar 1.23-1 GNU version of the tar archiving
> u
>
> dump recommends no packages.
>
> dump suggests no packages.
>
> -- debconf information:
> dump/dumpdates_is_a_symlink:
> dump/moving_from_etc_to_var:
>
>
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