(Fwd) Lost data on FreeBSD tape (fwd)
Doug White
dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Wed Aug 20 10:15:28 PDT 2003
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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