[stgt] VTL tape not working

[FUJITA Tomonori]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:07:02 +0100
Albert Pauw <albert.pauw at gmail.com> wrote:

> FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:14:42 +0100
> > Albert Pauw <albert.pauw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> it works now, thanks.
> >>     
> >
> > Nice, thanks.
> >
> >
> >   
> >> Just one more thing, using tgtimg I can set the size of the tape.
> >> However, there is no limit writing to it. Some backup software actually 
> >> relies on
> >> the tape reaching the end of the tape before trying to get another tape 
> >> from the library.
> >>
> >> Shouldn't the ssc_bs return an EOT at the size previously set with tgtim?
> >>     
> >
> > Yeah, we don't use 'the size' set with tgtimg now. I'll put this on my
> > todo list.
> >   
> Tomo,
> 
> the last commit you did, instead of the patch you send me before (tgtadm 
> patch) it patched
> target.c, but it doesn't work for me.

It works for me but I guess that I find why tgtd crashes. The patch
tries to free an invalid memory. Some glibc version can catch some
bug and crashes.

I reverted the patch and went with the patch that I've sent.
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