Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 01:17:55 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD-specific extension of struct mtget breaks dump(8) from Solaris Message-ID: <20000202011755.A40287@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002012326510.72881-100000@beppo.feral.com>; from mjacob@feral.com on Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 11:28:17PM -0800 References: <14487.55497.261038.68187Y@rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002012326510.72881-100000@beppo.feral.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 23:28:17 -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > rmt(8) returns the result of MTIOCGET filled into struct mtget in > > response to the 'S' command, issued by dump(8) of some certain OSs > > including Solaris. (FreeBSD's one seems to not issue the 'S' command) > > Due to the extention made to struct mtget in FreeBSD, remote dump > > from, eg Solaris to FreeBSD fails to establish rmt connection. > > > > Maybe we would have to provide something like struct mtget_org for > > compatibility with other OSs. Also, if we were to issue 'S' in our > > dump(8), some command extention may be required. (any plans?) > > > > Any comments? > > Yes. This is definitely an issue. Didn't this come up before and was a PR > filed that I somehow forgot to own? After all, I probably broke things. I wonder if this has been broken for a long time, likely by the FreeBSD-specific things in struct mtget. (They first show up in rev 1.2 of mtio.h, and were likely from the 386bsd days.) It would be nice if it worked between systems, though. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20000202011755.A40287>