> Am Montag, 2. Juli 2001 22:03 schrieb Andi Kleen:
> > I don't know much about TSM/ADSM, but if it's only checking the file system
> > name in /etc/mtab you can probably fix it with a binary editor, replacing
> > the name of an unused file system with the same length like ufs with xfs.
> > Just be careful that you find the right occurrence of the ufs string; it is
> > probably near other file system names.
> > I've fixed at least one program this way.
> >
> > -Andi
>
> I looked at the release notes of the TSM client 4.2.0 and it states:
>
> o The functionality of the Tivoli Storage Manager Linux client is designed
> and tested to work on file systems of the common types EXT2, ReiserFS,
> VFAT, NFS (see under known problems and limitations for supported
> environment), and ISO9660 (CD-ROM). Backup and archive for other file
> system types is not excluded. They will be tolerated and performed in
> compatibility mode.
> This means that features of other file systems types may not be supported
> by the Linux client. These file system type information of such file
> systems will be forced to unknown.
>
> So I guess XFS will work with this version, but without support for ACL and
> extended attributes.
>
> I am using Legato Networker for my Linux machines with several XFS
> filesystems myself. It works without problems. I am not using ACLs or
> extended attributes right now.
>
> ...Juergen
I took a quick look around the download site this morning, and noticed that
they have an Irix version. So it would not be a huge amount of effort to
use the modified api we have in Linux to get to thinks like extended
attributes as well. Note that this presumes the Irix version supports
them.
Steve
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