On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 06:35:44PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> If the file cannot be restarted from byte 1 on the next tape, eg the 
> system cannot back up to the start of the file being written, then 
> something is seriously wrong with the method being used.  In the case 
> of no holding disk, then it seems setting one up would be the answer.
 
These are all stored on a holding disk, and I see the same problem during
amflush of that holding disk.

What's even more curious is that the holding disk files are broken up into
1 gigabyte segments.  So 30-something of these would fit on a single tape,
and if EOT was hit before tape-end, then only <1gb would be lost.

Instead, nothing is being recorded as written to the tape.

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Joe Rhett
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