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[Bug-tar] Tar vs later linux kernels
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Gene Heskett |
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[Bug-tar] Tar vs later linux kernels |
Date: |
Fri, 06 Apr 2007 07:45:24 -0400 |
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Greetings;
Some small additions to the first, as yet un-acknowleged message.
Recently, a patch was applied to the linux kernel tree which had the
effect of changing the Device: line of a 'stat' report on a file.
The inode did not change, nor did the timestamps, only the Device: first
pair of values.
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Added: A cat /proc/devices shows the device-mapper at address 238, where
it had been in the LANANA experimental range at 252. This patch has now
been reverted as of 2.6.21-rc6, so as an amanda user, I will have to do
several backup runs today, needlessly filling my vtapes drive as if all
the data was new, until it has made full backups of the complete system.
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Device: ee00h/60928d <-all other data is identical regardless of the
kernel booted.
This has the effect that tar, when asked to give a listed-incremental list
and fed the reference file so it can obtain the timestamps and determine
if the file is new, would ascertain that the whole 50GB of a 160GB drive
that was used, was new, and drove amanda crazy trying to get caught up.
This patch needs to be applied to the kernel for good reasons as it moves
the device-mapped stuff out of an area that is reserved for experimental
usage.
What I looking for, is a good reason why tar is in fact sensitive to this
particular piece of info in the first place.
And of course, would it be possible to make tar immune to this change, as
I, with my relative lack of information, consider this to be a bug. If
its not fixed, tar users such as myself using amanda, are in for a very
rude surprise when the upgrade their kernels to something newer than
2.6.20.3.
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Added:
It has now been 22 hours since my first post to you, with no reply as yet,
and I was hoping to have this issue resolved before 2.6.21 final is out.
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Cheers, Gene
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