Re: st(4) and mt eom

[Frank Kardel <kardel%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hi !

It was not committed as up to now. I just committed the simple fix to 
-current.

I am in the middle of upgrading the positioning code so more changes may 
come time permitting.

Frank

On 05/19/19 09:35, Staffan Thomén wrote:
> Frank Kardel wrote:
> > Hi Adrian!
> >
> > I just finished implementing the EOM fix. On SPACE(EOM) a READ
> > POSITION(LONG_FORMAT) is
> >
> > done and current file number is set to the number of filemarks since BOT
> >
> > which is what we need.
> >
> > on a 10 file taoe (LTO6) both commands
> >
> > mt fsf 64
> >
> > mt eom
> >
> > now return a current file number of 10.
> >
> > no additional changes to mt like adding a locate command are needed,
> > Though adding LOCATE might also be an option to be added separately for
> > mt even if it does not help with bacula at all as bacula uses the MT
> > ioctls directly and not via scripts.
>
> Hey!
>
> I'd really like to have this feature, having recently moved to LTO5 
> and been forced to sit through bacula going one file at at time.
>
> So what happened? Are there patches? Will there be a pull-up to -8?
>
> _DenverCoder9, what did you see?_ - xkcd (wisdom of the ancients)
>
> Staffan