On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 10:14:36AM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
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> 
> > To solve this I made a change similar to the one I made to st.c a few days
> 
> I just noticed this (hey- I'm supposed to be caring about st- how about
> running this stuff by me, or the list). The change you made is wrong I

As usual, because I though it was a trivial change :(

> believe- the check should be against ST_MOUNTED, not PERIPH_OPEN- you now have
> allowed somebody to eject a tape manually in the middle of a no-rewind set of
> backups and replace it such that the backup apps don't know something has
> happened.

OK, I see what happen. A simple 'mt status' will mount the tape and leave it
mounted. Maybe it should not be mounted at first open of /dev/nrst0, but
at the first tape operation (read, write, or move space file/record) ?
Or maybe mt should default to use /dev/enrst0 instead.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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