Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262530AbVCBVZs (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 16:25:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262542AbVCBVZs (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 16:25:48 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:47276 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262530AbVCBVZq (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 16:25:46 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:25:12 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Kai Makisara Cc: marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, myeatman@vale-housing.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gene.heskett@verizon.net Subject: Re: Problems with SCSI tape rewind / verify on 2.4.29 Message-Id: <20050302132512.5853cd3b.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20050302120332.GA27882@logos.cnet> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1155 Lines: 35 Kai Makisara wrote: > > > > > v2.6 also contains the same problem BTW. > > > > Try this: > > > > --- a/drivers/scsi/st.c.orig 2005-03-02 09:02:13.637158144 -0300 > > +++ b/drivers/scsi/st.c 2005-03-02 09:02:20.208159200 -0300 > > @@ -3778,7 +3778,6 @@ > > read: st_read, > > write: st_write, > > ioctl: st_ioctl, > > - llseek: no_llseek, > > open: st_open, > > flush: st_flush, > > release: st_release, > > This change covers up the problem. The real bug is in tar. In that case we're kinda screwed, and should change the kernel to make tar work again. We can send a bug report to the tar folks (good luck) and wait a few years. > The first BSF did position the tape correctly although it did fail. (what's a BSF?) If it positioned the tape successfully, why did it claim that it failed? If we were to fix that up, would tar then be happy? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/