Re: [Dump-users] st driver's buffer corrupting multivolume dumps

[Stelian P. <st...@po...>]

Le vendredi 25 novembre 2005 =E0 12:30 -0800, Kenneth Porter a =E9crit :
> --On Friday, November 25, 2005 12:52 PM -0600 Brent Busby=20
> <br...@ke...> wrote:
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> > I've seen lots of posts in the dump mailing lists from people with th=
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> > problem, and elsewhere, but no solutions, and it doesn't seem so much=
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> > dump problem as a general tape drive problem, since it's the SCSI tap=
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> > driver that seems to create this scenario, and it would probably happ=
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> > just the same with tar or anything that tries to span data across tap=
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> > volumes on Linux.
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> While I have no solution, I'd suggest checking with the linux-scsi mail=
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> list, as someone there with a good understanding of the st driver may k=
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> what's going on.
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> Let us know what you find. It sounds like an interesting problem.

I think he is already reading the linux-scsi mailing list, but in case
he isn't it may be useful to also CC: the scsi tape driver maintainer,
Kai Makisara, in your mails.

Good luck.

Stelian.
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Stelian Pop <st...@po...>