Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:20:46 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: support quality (Re: dump | restore fails: unknown tape header type 1853384566) Message-ID: <200903251820.54749.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <49C9B330.10500@aldan.algebra.com> References: <49C83673.3000604@aldan.algebra.com> <200903251452.42301.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <49C9B330.10500@aldan.algebra.com>
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--nextPart65162929.sPH3db2Mya Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 25 March 2009 14:59:36 Mikhail T. wrote: > Daniel O'Connor =CE=C1=D0=C9=D3=C1=D7(=CC=C1): > > People ARE helping you, just because they haven't come up with an answer > > is no reason to send snarky comments to the list. > > No, sorry, people aren't. They are trying, yes, but not even close. The > suggestion to eliminate the -a switch (a no-op, in fact) was > particularly unhelpful -- and deserving of mockery. Later on someone > with a similar problem will find this thread with a search engine and > will be trying to follow the posted advices -- to no avail, of course, > plunging FreeBSD further into disrepute. I don't see how whining about it's going to change it. Insulting people for= =20 having a helpful attitude (even if it didn't solve your problem) is not goi= ng=20 to reward them for their time and effort. > > Outrage (fake or otherwise) that people don't seem to be taking your > > particular problem seriously is unhelpful and probably > > counter-productive. > > It is fairly obvious by now, that no real help will be forthcoming, for > whatever reason. Thus any talk of "productivity" is moot. Thanks for > trying. Except that I offered you a way of transferring your files that would prese= rve=20 file flags and so on. Yes, dump is broken for you, deal with it. It is quite possible your FS is= =20 corrupt, and/or your disk is damaged. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart65162929.sPH3db2Mya Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBJyeJX5ZPcIHs/zowRAj12AJ9wj89PXuH9qJWZtjliK35VGGRdwwCfRoTl ldjsy0SEyRhUUQPq8Dtjuvk= =qFBg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart65162929.sPH3db2Mya--
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