Linux kernel 2.6 and nsrmmd

[litauer]

Since I upgraded my networker server (7.1.3) to SuSE Linux 9.3, kernel 2.6.11 I got lots of log messages:

kernel: program nsrmmd is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO

As far as I found out, I am not able to convert anything. Instead I seem to need a converted version of nsrmmd by someone (Legato I think).
.. and I really need it: I backup to an adv_file device which in fact is a xfs filesystem. Doing a backup and some index operations (nsrim, nsrmm) in parallel, leads in a corrupted filesystem (two times now)! I never have had such effects using networker 7.1 on a SuSE 9.0 server using kernel 2.4.x.

Anybody has an idea what to do?

 

[605]

First of all you have to verify whether your configuration is even supported. As you can see from the Compatibility Guide, support for NW 7.1.3/SuSE 9 is very small and only for SuSE Enterprise Server 9. Also XFS is nopt listed.

nsrmmd talks to the devices via the OS drivers - Legato does not install proprietary drives - so i assume that an OS driver causes the problem.