On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Christian Iversen wrote: > > Whenever I use --verify for tar, I get problems. Specifically, I get > "Illegal seek" when tar gets to the verify phase. > I looked at tar 1.13.25 sources and this looks like a tar bug: verify from tape does not work for the first file (and I am not sure about other files). After writing, tar tries to skip backwards over two filemarks. When writing the first file, there is no second filemark to skip over: this fails and gives you the error. If you do verify with a second call to tar (tar --compare) after skipping backwards with mt, this should work.
... > Please note that I can restore the data just fine, if I use tar. If I try to > use dd, I get strange errors as well: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/tmp #dd if=/dev/tape of=dump > dd: reading `/dev/tape': Cannot allocate memory > 0+0 records in > 0+0 records out > 0 bytes transferred in 3,699040 seconds (0 bytes/sec) > Guy already solved this problem. The message (Cannot allocate memory) is not very clear but this is what other Unices use. -- Kai - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
