Re: [Bacula-users] iSCSI-Tape problems

2007-10-30 Thread Christoph Litauer
Josh Fisher schrieb: > The only difference that I can see is that the full_write() / > safe_write() functions in tar attempt the write multiple times if need > be and attempt to finish (it seems) partial writes. Btape fails > immediately if the write() system call fails to write the requested >

Re: [Bacula-users] iSCSI-Tape problems

2007-10-29 Thread Josh Fisher
Wolfgang Denk wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > >> Curious as to why tar worked when btape did not, I found this. For >> portability reasons, tar appears to always use a physical block size of >> 512 bytes. See >> http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/tar_73.

Re: [Bacula-users] iSCSI-Tape problems

2007-10-28 Thread Wolfgang Denk
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > Curious as to why tar worked when btape did not, I found this. For > portability reasons, tar appears to always use a physical block size of > 512 bytes. See > http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/tar_73.html. Perhaps > that explains

Re: [Bacula-users] iSCSI-Tape problems

2007-10-25 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 25.10.2007 16:34,, Christoph Litauer wrote:: > Christoph Litauer schrieb: >> Josh Fisher schrieb: >>> This can happen when ClearPageReserved() is not called for a reserved >>> kernel memory page. Could be an iSCSI driver (included with the Linux >>> kernel) problem or, if you are using a hard

Re: [Bacula-users] iSCSI-Tape problems

2007-10-25 Thread Josh Fisher
Christoph Litauer wrote: > Christoph Litauer schrieb: > >> Josh Fisher schrieb: >> >>> This can happen when ClearPageReserved() is not called for a reserved >>> kernel memory page. Could be an iSCSI driver (included with the Linux >>> kernel) problem or, if you are using a hardware iSCSI

Re: [Bacula-users] iSCSI-Tape problems

2007-10-25 Thread Christoph Litauer
Christoph Litauer schrieb: > Josh Fisher schrieb: >> This can happen when ClearPageReserved() is not called for a reserved >> kernel memory page. Could be an iSCSI driver (included with the Linux >> kernel) problem or, if you are using a hardware iSCSI adapter, it could >> be a problem with its dr

Re: [Bacula-users] iSCSI-Tape problems

2007-10-25 Thread Christoph Litauer
Josh Fisher schrieb: > > This can happen when ClearPageReserved() is not called for a reserved > kernel memory page. Could be an iSCSI driver (included with the Linux > kernel) problem or, if you are using a hardware iSCSI adapter, it could > be a problem with its driver. > >> My question is: Wh

Re: [Bacula-users] iSCSI-Tape problems

2007-10-24 Thread Josh Fisher
Christoph Litauer wrote: > Dear bacula users, > > I am running bacula-mysql 2.2.5 (rpm from sourceforge) on a SuSE SLES > 10SP1 machine, kernel version 2.6.16 (SMP). > > I configured and mounted tape drive via iSCSI. I can tar from and to > this drive without problems. I can label a tape with btap

[Bacula-users] iSCSI-Tape problems

2007-10-24 Thread Christoph Litauer
Dear bacula users, I am running bacula-mysql 2.2.5 (rpm from sourceforge) on a SuSE SLES 10SP1 machine, kernel version 2.6.16 (SMP). I configured and mounted tape drive via iSCSI. I can tar from and to this drive without problems. I can label a tape with btape, read this label without problems. B