Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id g0VJwPx03426 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 11:58:25 -0800 Received: from mailout10.sul.t-online.com (mailout10.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.21]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id g0VJwLd03403 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 11:58:21 -0800 Received: from fwd00.sul.t-online.de by mailout10.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 16WMPX-0006Lr-0C; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:58:15 +0100 Received: from Deimos (520094219231-0001@[217.86.168.16]) by fmrl00.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 16WMPT-2FL7WSC; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:58:11 +0100 Received: by triffnix.de via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.111) for linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:58:02 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.7p2 on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3C58FAB9.D940E9B8@ch.sauter-bc.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:58:02 +0100 (CET) From: unruh@acm.org To: Simon Matter Subject: Re: xfsrestore fails: assertion failure in do_next_mark Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com X-Sender: 520094219231-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Status: O Content-Length: 807 Lines: 24 On 31-Jan-2002 Simon Matter wrote: > IIRC I got the same error some months ago when trying to restore from a > DDS2 DAT drive. On the same system restoring from DLT was okay. I didn't > try again but I guess this bug is still not fixed :-( After some reading of the mailing list archives, I added the following at line 1481 in drive_scsitape.c (version 1.5): rechdrp->first_mark_offset = INT_GET(rechdrp->first_mark_offset,ARCH_CONVERT); The patched xfsrestore can read the damaged backup, but will probably be unable to read backups from newer versions of xfsdump. -------------------------------------- Daniel Unruh unruh@acm.org http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~unruh/ -------------------------------------- "We are the most ripped-off company around..." - Bill Gates, 1980