dms dms writes:
> As a test, I took the igb driver from opensolaris 2008.11 and copied it to
> the solaris10 10/08 u6 installation and performed the same backup test, the
> backup then completed successfully. For whatever reason the Opensolaris igb
> driver appears to resolve this issue.
Yikes.
> I don't know if the issue lies in the
> bacula software application or the driver, or both.
>
> My question is; is it safe to run the Opensolaris 2008.11 igb driver in a
> Solaris 10/08 u6 x86 installation as is, or does the driver need to be
> compilied on Solaris 10u6?
You need one compiled for Solaris 10.
There are at least two problems here:
- We support compatibility only in the other direction: things
compiled by other parties on old Solaris versions are (provided
that they use only documented interfaces) guaranteed to work on
new Solaris versions. The reverse -- compiling on a newer Solaris
box and running on an older one -- may sometimes work, but has
never been supported.
- No compatibility is supported for binaries that are delivered as
part of the operating system itself. In other words, the 'igb'
driver, as an OS-delivered component, must be used on exactly the
system on which it was installed by packaging/patching. Copying
system components between systems -- whether older or newer or
just with different combinations of patches -- can't be supported
because OS components typically don't restrict themselves to
documented interfaces.
All of that is a long way of saying "file a bug and, since this is
S10, follow up with support."
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