Hello Kai, On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 17:51, "Kai Mäkisara (Kolumbus)" <kai.makisara@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > On 20. Apr 2020, at 11.13, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > [CC += Kai] > > > > (Kai, I got a pile of queries from a downstream translation project) > > > > On 4/19/20 8:48 AM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > >> Dear manpages maintainers. > >> > ... > >> We cannot understand the last sentence. What is "forward spacing"? > >> > >> "This option causes the B<MTEOM> operation to be sent directly to the drive, " > >> "potentially speeding up the operation but causing the driver to lose track " > >> "of the current file number normally returned by the B<MTIOCGET> request. If " > >> "B<MT_ST_FAST_EOM> is false, the driver will respond to an B<MTEOM> request " > >> "by forward spacing over files." > > > > Perhaps Kai can help. I do not have a good explanation. > > > Spacing in tape terminology means going to the next file (or record or set mark). > The drives usually support a command to go to the end of the tape. The > drawback is that no information is obtained about the number of files skipped. > If the driver spaces forward over files one by one, it can count how many > files have been skipped. > > This is the technical description. But the text also says what is the consequence > for a user that does not care about technology. Spacing is mentions also > earlier in the text. So, no text changes needed here, right? Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
