-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 01:11, Paul Mather wrote: > I'm using the Linux 5.1.5.15 TSM client on a FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8 > system. (See previous message in this thread.) It was a bit finicky to > get going. I found I had better luck using emulators/linux_base-8 than > emulators/linux_base, though I did get it running under both. One > hurdle for most people is that the client aborts with an out of memory > error during file activities. I discovered that this is caused by > having an empty or missing /compat/linux/etc/mtab file. Creating a > proper mtab file solves these problems. One way to do this is via > something like the following: > > sed 's/ufs/ext2/' < /etc/fstab > /compat/linux/etc/mtab > > That way, the Linux TSM "sees" your UFS partitions and will > backup/restore to them. I wonder if it could work with an LD_PRELOAD or some other linker trickery.. ie replace open()/read()/write() with something that looks for /etc/mtab and instead opens /etc/fstab and translates it on the fly.. I don't use TSM though so I couldn't test it :) (BTW linux_devtools can be used to make something like this, I wrote one for the TeamSpeak port to hide an unimplemented sound ioctl) - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA4ihR5ZPcIHs/zowRAqRJAJwKsNyao2pKodg7YfcQwasdbAdf2ACeN8S8 sG8eI4DCFB04Lermz8NWFx4= =0zMe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----Received on Wed Jun 30 2004 - 00:41:39 UTC
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