Bug 154501 - '-r' (append) not working correctly with tape drive
Summary: '-r' (append) not working correctly with tape drive
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: tar
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Peter Vrabec
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-04-12 09:20 UTC by Jay Turner
Modified: 2015-01-08 00:09 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2005-05-11 10:40:01 UTC
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Description Jay Turner 2005-04-12 09:20:50 UTC
Description of problem:
The following behavior has been reported with tar-1.13.25-13.  It works
correctly when using a file instead of the tape drive.

# tar -cvf /dev/nst0 folderA
folderA/
folderA/t1
folderA/t2
# mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
# tar -tvf /dev/nst0
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2005-04-01 15:54:53 folderA/
-rw-r--r-- root/root         7 2005-04-01 15:54:48 folderA/t1
-rw-r--r-- root/root        10 2005-04-01 15:54:55 folderA/t2
# mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
# tar -rvf /dev/nst0 folderB
folderB/
folderB/t3
folderB/t4
# mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
# tar -tvf /dev/nst0
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2005-04-01 15:54:53 folderA/
-rw-r--r-- root/root         7 2005-04-01 15:54:48 folderA/t1
-rw-r--r-- root/root        10 2005-04-01 15:54:55 folderA/t2
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Comment 1 Peter Vrabec 2005-04-26 14:43:08 UTC
What kind of tape do u use? 
Can u reproduce it with another one?


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