Kai Makisara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
