From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
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
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:25:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050302132512.5853cd3b.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0503022253360.9132@kai.makisara.local>
Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi> 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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-02 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-02 11:15 Problems with SCSI tape rewind / verify on 2.4.29 Mark Yeatman
2005-03-02 12:03 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-03-02 17:08 ` Gene Heskett
2005-03-02 14:34 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-03-02 20:46 ` Re[03]: " John L. Males
2005-03-02 21:15 ` John L. Males
2005-03-02 21:26 ` John L. Males
2005-03-02 21:17 ` Kai Makisara
2005-03-02 16:59 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-03-02 22:15 ` Kai Makisara
2005-03-02 21:25 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-03-02 21:44 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2005-03-02 22:01 ` Kai Makisara
2005-03-02 22:17 ` Andrew Morton
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-02 16:50 Mark Yeatman
2005-03-02 22:25 John L. Males
2005-03-02 23:51 John L. Males
2005-03-03 8:29 Mark Yeatman
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