Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 00:15:56 +0200 (EET)
From: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
cc: Mark Yeatman <myeatman@vale-housing.co.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Problems with SCSI tape rewind / verify on 2.4.29
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On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:17:19PM +0200, Kai Makisara wrote:
...
> > BTW, this "fix" by Solar Designer introduces a bug to 2.4.29: a tape 
> > driver is supposed to return ENOMEM in the case that was changed to return 
> > EIO ;-(
> 
> Reverted.
> 
Thanks.

...
> Thanks for the cluebat Kai, is this problem fixed in newer versions of tar? 
> 
The current CVS version seems to have the same code I quoted.

> I suspect v2.4 should work with older versions of tar, so we should keep 
> "lseek" working to make it happy. What is your opinion?
> 
I commented this in the other reply I just sent and I don't have a clear 
preference. I just hope that 2.4 and 2.6 are fixed in a compatible way.

-- 
Kai
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