"tar tfv /dev/cd0" speedup patch

[Tim Kientzle]

I should have been clearer; I tried this techniqe
on FreeBSD; I've not tried it on Linux yet.
(I don't have a Linux machine with a tape drive
at the moment.)

It doesn't work on FreeBSD; I was questioning
whether anyone else had tested it on Linux.

If Juergen's technique doesn't work, I'll try
the BLKGETSIZE ioctl.

Tim

Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> On Saturday 20 February 2010 12:20 am, Tim Kientzle wrote:
>> Juergen,
>>
>> I was looking at your Linux code here and thought
>> the technique of trying lseek(SEEK_END) might work.
>> Unfortunately, it doesn't: lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END) gives
>> zero for both /dev/sa0 (a tape drive) and /dev/cd0
>> (an optical drive).  Are you sure it works on Linux?
> 
> Can you please try ioctl(fd, BLKGETSIZE64, &some_uint64_var) or 
> ioctl(fd, BLKGETSIZE, &some_u_long_var)?
> 
> Jung-uk Kim
> 
>