Re: Problems with SCSI tape rewind / verify on 2.4.29
From: Andrew Morton (akpm_at_osdl.org)
Date: 03/02/05
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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 14:17:11 -0800 To: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi> wrote:
>
> f seek with tape is changed back to returning success, this would enable
> correct tar --verify at the beginning of the tape. However, I am not sure
> what happens if we are not at the beginning. I will investigate this and
> suggest a long term fix to the tar people (a fix that should be compatible
> with all Unix tape semantics I know) and also suggest possible fixes to st
> (this may include automatic writing of a filemark when BSF is used after
> writes).
Yes, please let's get a tar fix in the pipeline.
GNU tar must run on a lot of operating systems. It's odd.
> If you think want to make st return success for seeks even if nothing
> happens (as it did earlier), I don't have anything against that. It would
> solve the practical problem several people have reported recently. (My
> recommendation for the people seeing this problem is to do verification
> separately with 'tar -d'.)
Yes, I think we need to grit our teeth and do this. I'll stick a comment
in there.
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