Re: RSDL for 2.6.21-rc3- 0.29

Gene Heskett
2007-03-12T06:38:00Z

On Monday 12 March 2007, Con Kolivas wrote:
>Hi Gene.
>
>On Monday 12 March 2007 16:38, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> I hate to say it Con, but this one seems to have broken the amanda-tar
>> symbiosis.
>>
>> I haven't tried a plain 21-rc3, so the problem may exist there, and in
>> fact it did for 21-rc1, but I don't recall if it was true for -rc2.
>> But I will have a plain 21-rc3 running by tomorrow nights amanda run
>> to test.
>>
>> What happens is that when amanda tells tar to do a level 1 or 2, tar
>> still thinks its doing a level 0. The net result is that the tape is
>> filled completely and amanda does an EOT exit in about 10 of my 42
>> dle's. This is tar-1.15-1 for fedora core 6.
>
>I'm sorry but I have to say I have no idea what any of this means. I
> gather you're making an association between some application
> combination failing and RSDL cpu scheduler. Unfortunately the details
> of what the problem is, or how the cpu scheduler is responsible, escape
> me :(

I have another backup running right now, after building a plain
2.6.21-rc3, and rebooting just now for the test. I don't think its the
scheduler itself, but is something post 2.6.20 that is messing with tars
mind and making it think the files it just read to do the estimate phase,
are all new, so even a level 2 is in effect a level 0. I'll have an
answer in about an hour, but its also 2:36am here and I'm headed for the
rack to get some zzz's. So I'll report in the morning as to whether or
not this backup ran as it was supposed to. I have a feeling its not
going to though.

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