Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:46:05 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> To: holm@freibergnet.de Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with dump and hald on SCSI Tapes on 8.x Message-ID: <4C54615D.6060202@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20100728061618.GB27599@pegasus.freiberg-net.de> References: <20100728061618.GB27599@pegasus.freiberg-net.de>
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On 7/28/10 2:16 AM, Holm Tiffe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since I've upgraded my computer to RELENG_8 I had problems to dump my
> filesystems to my DLT drive. The FS are bigger than only one tape, so dump
> is reqeusting a continuation tape if it detects an EOF on the first one.
>
> If I now change the tape and answer dump's question with "yes"
> (DUMP: Is the new volume mounted and ready to go?: ("yes" or "no"))
> I get this if hald is running:
>
> DUMP: Is the new volume mounted and ready to go?: ("yes" or "no") yes
> DUMP: Volume 2 begins with blocks from inode 14885067
> DUMP: EOT detected at start of the tape!
> DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
>
> #
>
>
> ..regardless what tape is mounted or which drive (I have an 8GB Tandberg
> QIC Drive and a 40GB Quantum DLT).
>
> If I stop hald
>
> (# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald stop
> Stopping hald.
> )
>
> dump is working flawlessly again:
>
> [..]
>
> DUMP: 61.56% done, finished in 2:57 at Wed Jul 28 04:25:46 2010
> DUMP: 62.56% done, finished in 2:53 at Wed Jul 28 04:26:24 2010
> DUMP: 63.53% done, finished in 2:49 at Wed Jul 28 04:27:12 2010
> DUMP: 64.52% done, finished in 2:44 at Wed Jul 28 04:27:47 2010
> DUMP: 65.55% done, finished in 2:40 at Wed Jul 28 04:28:08 2010
> DUMP: End of tape detected
> DUMP: Closing /dev/nsa1
> DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume #2
> DUMP: Is the new volume mounted and ready to go?: ("yes" or "no") yes
> DUMP: Volume 2 begins with blocks from inode 14885087
> DUMP: 65.69% done, finished in 2:39 at Wed Jul 28 09:18:27 2010
> DUMP: 66.75% done, finished in 2:34 at Wed Jul 28 09:18:35 2010
> DUMP: 67.73% done, finished in 2:30 at Wed Jul 28 09:19:11 2010
>
> [..]
>
> This is the same on both drives.
>
> My question here is: How can I (permanently) prevent hald from touching
> the /dev/sa and the /dev/nsa devices?
See http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html#q2 .
Joe
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