From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 12 15:42:54 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE89F37B401 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:42:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B65543E4A for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:42:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h0CNgnXb020487; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 17:42:49 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 17:42:49 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: William Gianopoulos Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LINUX sysinfo syscall Message-ID: <20030112234249.GB95625@dan.emsphone.com> References: <000001c2ba41$ec167310$0100a8c0@wagpc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000001c2ba41$ec167310$0100a8c0@wagpc> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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