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Re: review: Simple patch to remove the dmapi support from xfsdump

To: Dean Roehrich <dean.roehrich@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: review: Simple patch to remove the dmapi support from xfsdump
From: Vlad Apostolov <vapo@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 10:00:16 +1000
Cc: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx>, xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Dean Roehrich wrote:
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:18:13PM +1000, Vlad Apostolov wrote:
Hi Russel,

I don't understand in details the build changes but they seam to be fine.

Vlad, why do they seem fine?
Well, I patiently waited with the hope that someone more knowledgeable on the topic would do the review. No one responded in time and I thought that either no one cares about the change or no one fully understands it. As I am supposed to support DMAPI, I had to take the review and after consulting locally with xfs developers I did the review. Now I see that there are people interested and knowing better than me what needs to be done.
In summary if the build system can find the DMAPI lib installed it will
use hsmapi_noop.c otherwise hsmapi.c.
The return code of HsmInitFileContext() stub probably should be non zero.

It is looking good.

So this is determined at build time...so when you're using a version of
xfsdump/xfsrestore how do you know you're _not_ using one that is DMAPI-aware
_before_ you get into trouble with an invalid dump?

Assuming that issue is addressed, here's another:  The libdm is a shared
object, so why not take advantage of that and load it with dlopen?  Then the
issue is determined at runtime rather than build time.  This is easy, and even
DMF does it this way.

Dean


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