Subject: Re: restore(8) failure
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Juergen Hannken-Illjes <hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/30/1999 10:56:15
> On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 08:05:42PM +0200, Hauke Fath wrote:
> > 
> > -- ISTR a restore problem earlier this year. Is this still present? I tried
> > both a restore binary from a summer snapshot and from -current sources.
> > Working on a "real" tape gives the same result.
> > 
> > 1.4.1 binary on mac68k works fine.
> > 
> > What am I missing here?
> 
> It is a bug in the compiler, not in restore itself. I don't know if the
> compiler bug has been killed or not.

The compiler bug was fixed Jul 29, 1999. The problem was dump, not restore.
Sets built with a bad dump start with 1024 zero bytes and are
completely corrupt.

> --
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
> --
> 


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Juergen Hannken-Illjes - hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de - TU Braunschweig (Germany)