SCSI tape data loss

[Kern Sibbald]

Yes, after a bit more thought, I realized this was the
case, thanks.

In any case, both buffered and async writes are turned off by
default.

On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 02:00, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> Of course linux has async && buffered. Linux has to copy the data from
> user space to kernel buffers and *then* write them. This leads to an
> obvious desire to overlap such writes. The same feature was available in
> Solaris 2.5 as well.
> 
> 'Buffering' as we talk about here typically means the device buffers
> themselves. You don't want to turn this off. You don't want to turn this
> off. You don't want to turn this off. The only device that I know of
> that really *has* to have this off is the old M4 1/2" reel drive because
> it would discard buffered data when it saw the early warning marker.
> 
> I have a longer answer to the previous mail about to go out.
> 
> -matt