Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262458AbVCBWX4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:23:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262507AbVCBWTX (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:19:23 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:39869 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262500AbVCBWRS (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:17:18 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 14:17:11 -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: <20050302141711.00ec7147.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20050302120332.GA27882@logos.cnet> <20050302132512.5853cd3b.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-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: 1289 Lines: 27 Kai Makisara 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. - 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/