From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 31 17:46:08 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BC421065678 for ; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:46:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@freebsd.org) Received: from av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (hen.cisco.com [64.102.19.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 081C08FC18 for ; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:46:07 +0000 (UTC) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost.cisco.com [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o6VHk6LH013866; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:46:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from fruit-rollup.marcuscom.com (jclarke-pc.cisco.com [172.18.254.236]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o6VHk5ct015398; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:46:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4C54615D.6060202@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:46:05 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Thunderbird/3.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: holm@freibergnet.de References: <20100728061618.GB27599@pegasus.freiberg-net.de> In-Reply-To: <20100728061618.GB27599@pegasus.freiberg-net.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with dump and hald on SCSI Tapes on 8.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:46:08 -0000 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 -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome