Jan Blunck wrote: > __os_scsi_tape_open() suggests that llseek() doesn't work: > "We really want to do nonseekable_open(inode, filp); here, but some > versions of tar incorrectly call lseek on tapes and bail out if that > fails. So we disallow pread() and pwrite(), but permit lseeks." > > Instead of using the fallback default_llseek() the driver should use > noop_llseek() which leaves the file->f_pos untouched but succeeds. st.c has the same comment, but I didn't see a patch for st.c in the series. -- Jamie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
