The system is question belongs to an engineer as his personal workstation. I really wanted a stand alone backup server so this solution is my preferred one. I think upgrading the 7.0 system to 8.0 or at least to a 2.4.19 kernel would also have worked just fine.
Dana Bourgeois > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 11:45 AM > To: Dana Bourgeois; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Answering questions about Amanda on RedHat 7.0 > > > > > I recently posted a question about my attempts to get > 2.4.4p1 running > > on a RedHat 7.0 box. I probably didn't mention that the > plan was to > > go > tapeless. > > This project didn't work and I can explain exactly why so > others won't > bump > > into the same wall I did. > > > > 2.4.4p1 compiles just fine on RedHat 7.0 which is a 2.2 > kernel. This > kernel > > doesn't have big file support. The file: device also works great. > > The problem is that while you can create large *tapes* on disk, you > > can't > write > > large *tape files* on the tape since it is created in a file system > > that > has > > a 2G limit. > > > > I actually ran into this with the holding disk but used the > chunksize > > workaround to get past it without giving thought to what that meant > > later > in > > the process when taper was running.... I guess I was too > close to the > > problem and the errors pointed in lots of other places. It wasn't > > until a coworker was asking about the problems and I > mentioned a list > > of DLEs with the problem and thinking of the list mused > "...in fact, > > almost everything larger than about 2 G is giving an error of some > > type." This person suggested I run a test to see if a 2.2G > file could > > be created on the host and it could not which made the > problem rather > > obvious. > > > > Turns out that the problems all went away with SuSE 8.1 (kernel > > 2.4.19). > > > > In addition I can also verify that this same kernel has built in > > support > for > > the Promise Ultra 133 TX2 card and will support a 200G IDE drive > > (Maxtor Diamond Max +9). > > why didn't you either upgrade the version of RedHat you were > using to something less ancient or just upgrade the kernel on > that box? > > >