(Fwd) Lost data on FreeBSD tape (fwd)

[Doug White]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Nate Lawson wrote:

> This appears to be a pthreads problem, not scsi.  Anyone care to look at
> it?

This will be an interesting fix ... since pthreads use non-blocking file
descriptors underneath, fixing it may involve changing the semantics of
non-blocking files.

> The interesting thing is that when the program
> works, it gets a 0 status on a write, which
> indicates that the tape is at the end of the
> Logical EOF marker (or in other words, the
> tape is almost full):

I'm kind of curious what he's referring to here.  There are no EOF markers
unless you write them yourself.  Does bakula require you to stripe tapes
before use?

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