From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:23:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postoffice.aconex.com (mail.app.aconex.com [203.89.192.138]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l2ILMx6p003167 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:23:01 -0700 Subject: But wait, theres more... [Fwd: Bug#415123: -R option can't append to a plain file] From: Nathan Scott Reply-To: nscott@aconex.com Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:23:13 +1100 Message-Id: <1174252993.5051.233.camel@edge> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: wkendall@sgi.com Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com And a free set of steak knives if you fix this bug... ;-) -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Peter Chubb Reply-To: Peter Chubb , 415123@bugs.debian.org To: submit@bugs.debian.org Subject: Bug#415123: -R option can't append to a plain file Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:54:37 +1100 Package: xfsdump Version: 2.2.38-1 If I use xfsdump to dump to a plain file, interrupt it, then restart with the -R option, xfsdump complains: xfsdump: ERROR: media contains valid xfsdump but does not support append which is misleading: of *course* you can append to a regular file if there's space on the filesystem. -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia -- Nathan