Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 20:53:05 -0500 From: "William Gianopoulos" <wgianopoulos@raytheon.com> To: "'Dan Nelson'" <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: LINUX sysinfo syscall Message-ID: <000201c2baa6$85fddea0$0100a8c0@wagpc> In-Reply-To: <20030112234249.GB95625@dan.emsphone.com>
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OK sounds like the answer is to not bother. Kind of what I suspected. The tapedrive was not going to be a problem I was only trying to get the workgroup option to work to back it up via TCP/IP to the Windows/XP system with the tapedrive on it. I guess I'll just stick with my current backup method. The other drive on the system runs windows so I just mount it and backup stuff to it and then do the tape backups from there. Just makes it a 2 step 2 OS boot thing to restore stuff from tape though. -- William A. Gianopoulos IT Security Engineering Raytheon Company -----Original Message----- From: Dan Nelson [mailto:dnelson@allantgroup.com] Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 6:43 PM To: William Gianopoulos Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LINUX sysinfo syscall In the last episode (Jan 12), William Gianopoulos said: > This has probably been asked before, but I could not find any info > searching the archives. I am trying to run the Linux version Tapeware > from Yosemite under FreeBSD 4.1. It fails because the Linux syscall > sysinfo is not implemented. My questions are: > > 1- Is there some other port/package or option I should be using? > > 2- Would a later version of FreeBSD fix this? > > 3- Should I just give up? You will face two other problems once you get it actually running: * You won't be able to use it as a device server, since Tapeware sends raw SCSI requests to /dev/sg* on Linux. The equivalent for FreeBSD would be to use /dev/pass* devices, and there is no emulation layer. * Linux emulated programs always search /compat/linux/ before /, so if you ask to have "/bin" backed up it will back up /compat/linux/bin instead of /bin, for example. I don't know if there is a useful workaround, since Tapeware is smart enough to not follow symlinks (otherwise you could ccreate a symlink at /compat/linux/realroot pointing to /, and ask Tapeware to back up "/realroot") Tapeware is great software, but I don't think they are a large enough company to be able to maintain a port to FreeBSD. I think you can tell Tapeware to back up NFS mountpoints, so you might be able to back up the FreeBSD system by mounting it from another Linux box (or a Windows one if the BSD one is running samba) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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