Hello, I just wanted to let any of you who may be using the SVN know that in order to fix the Storage daemon to remember where tapes were last used to avoid unnecessary moving of volumes from one drive to another (mostly seen in autochangers), I had to modify handling of the device control record (DCR).
This kind of change, particularly to this record, has a rather major effect on the code, and so I wouldn't be surprised to find a few remaining cases of seg faults in the SD as a result of this change. The downside is that it might take a bit longer than I had foreseen to ensure that the code is really solid (another couple of weeks). The upside is that once I finish "tuning" the code, the SD should make much more efficient re-use of drives than it previously did, and the proper structures now exist to easily implement drive switching during a job. Bottom line, I encourage as much testing as possible, because at this point, that is what is needed, and I have thoroughly tested the code with lots of regression testing, but be aware that the SD may be less stable than previously (unfortunately the regression tests don't cover *everything*). Best regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
