Misc see kes-1.31 13May03

[bacula/bacula] / bacula / src / stored / block.c

diff --git a/bacula/src/stored/block.c b/bacula/src/stored/block.c
index b438b38d519a0888bbb69a8182522c34eb279eb6..762583b13a1316327b46e173b6a1aa7036ffa6c1 100644 (file)
--- a/bacula/src/stored/block.c
+++ b/bacula/src/stored/block.c
@@ -428,6 +428,16 @@ int write_block_to_dev(JCR *jcr, DEVICE *dev, DEV_BLOCK *block)
         if (ok && bsr_dev(dev, 1) != 0) {
            ok = FALSE;
             Jmsg(jcr, M_ERROR, 0, _("Back space record at EOT failed. ERR=%s\n"), strerror(dev->dev_errno));
+           /* ****FIXME*****
+            *  On FreeBSD systems, if the user got here, it is likely that his/her
+             *    tape drive is "frozen".  The correct thing to do is a 
+            *    rewind(), but if we do that, higher levels in cleaning up, will
+            *    most likely write the EOS record over the beginning of the
+            *    tape.  The rewind *is* done later in mount.c when another
+            *    tape is requested. However, it should be done here. In that
+            *    case, we need to send back some fatal error status to avoid
+            *    future writes.
+            */
         }
         if (ok) {
            DEV_BLOCK *lblock = new_block(dev);