Re: star quitting when changing tapes

On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 16:08 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > write(4, "././@PaxHeader\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 262144) = 262144
> > write(4, "Yk\266\32c\320\226\317\22U\371b\273A\336n\4\253U\322\361"..., 262144) = -1 EBUSY (Device or resource busy)
> > write(2, "/usr/local/bin/star: Device or r"..., 73) = 73
> > close(3)                                = 0
> > close(6)                                = 0
> > exit_group(16)                          = ?
> > Process 24546 detached
> 
> I am not sure whether I did already reply on this.
> 
> This is a Linux kerneldriver bug.

Maybe.  Maybe the tape drive was still busy reading the status of the
new tape.

>  Star cannot do anything useful in this
> situation.

Being able to retry would be useful.  If the error comes from a bad
tape, being able to swap tapes and retry would be useful.  Since it is
the first write on the tape, the buffer must still be available.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
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