Re: XFS & ADSM

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 02:07:52PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> >> werner maes <werner.maes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>  > On a system with XFS installed (using the RH 7.1 iso) I'm not able to
>  > backup my files using ADSM (backup on tape). Without XFS there's no
>  > problem.
> 
>  To put it midly, ADSM is a POS.  For some reason it checks the
>  filesystem type of the partition where the data it is trying to backup
>  is located, finds it's "xfs", it has no idea what that is and bombs
>  out.

It's unfortunately not even an ADSM only problem. e.g. Arkeia has the
same one and even VMWare checks file system types for some unknown 
reason.


-Andi