Re: Problems with SCSI tape rewind / verify on 2.4.29

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi> 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.