Re: Problems with SCSI tape rewind / verify on 2.4.29

From: Kai Makisara
Date: Wed Mar 02 2005 - 17:31:23 EST


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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