new bug in 4.0.5 /usr/etc/dump

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2 total messages Started by Steve Dempsey Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:04

#39

Author: Steve Dempsey
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:04

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/usr/etc/dump in IRIX 4.0.5 does not correctly parse the "raw" field of the
entries in /etc/fstab.  If any other options follow the 'raw' device name
they are picked up as part of the name by "dump".  For example, this entry:

    /dev/dsk/dks1d5s6 /data1 efs rw,raw=/dev/rdsk/dks1d5s6,quota 0 0

causes "dump" to try to open the file "/dev/rdsk/dks1d5s6,quota".
This was NOT the case with IRIX 4.0.1.  The workaround is to make sure the
'raw' field is the last in the list.
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Re: new bug in 4.0.5 /usr/etc/dump

#40

Author: Dave Olson
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:48

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In <1hsvc8INN9h@network.ucsd.edu> sd@chem.ucsd.edu (Steve Dempsey) writes:

| /usr/etc/dump in IRIX 4.0.5 does not correctly parse the "raw" field of the
| entries in /etc/fstab.  If any other options follow the 'raw' device name
| they are picked up as part of the name by "dump".  For example, this entry:
| 
|     /dev/dsk/dks1d5s6 /data1 efs rw,raw=/dev/rdsk/dks1d5s6,quota 0 0
| 
| causes "dump" to try to open the file "/dev/rdsk/dks1d5s6,quota".
| This was NOT the case with IRIX 4.0.1.  The workaround is to make sure the
| 'raw' field is the last in the list.

It isn't dump per se.  It is the generic library code that
parses /etc/fstab, and a number of apps suffer from it (there
is an open bug on it).  Reorder the options field, and things
will start working again.  It is a pain, but at least there is
a workaround.
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Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com

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