On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Artur Shnayder wrote:
Hello, I wonder if anybody had experience with reading tar format tapes from device, that connected to Network Appliance. I tried from Solaris machine "tar xvf netapp:nrst0a" ... and got "netapp:nrst0a: No such file or directory". ufsdump utility works fine.
Netapp's implementation of the rmt protocol is at best "minimalist" and at worst wrong. Earlier this year I spent a few happy hours with a protocol analyser and found that filers don't respond properly to tape drive status requests and hence some clients won't talk to them. That may be the problem in this case.
I reported this to Netapp some time ago but I don't know if anything happened. It's probably fixed in a future major release of their no-upgrades-needed OS!
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