Hi,

I understand that there are patches for mt-gnu that allow you to
set hardware compression for your tape drive on/off.

It would be nice if that was supported and that you don't have
to use mt-st.


Kurt

mt upstream has been virtually unmaintained for years.  If you have
patches you think we can get upstream, I'll be happy to forward
them.

I've read that various distro's have a patch for that, but I
didn't look hard to find it.


Kurt

We were basically maintaining an mt fork until 2005.

Hi,

Following an upgrade from Debian Etch to Lenny, I saw that the
'datcompression' switch to 'mt', that I used to set compression
on/off, was actually a Debian patch:
http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/misc/view/cpio/2.6-18.1+etch1/src/mt.c
http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/misc/view/cpio/2.6-18.1+etch1/doc/mt.1
which was removed from their package at a point:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=566752

Apparently SuSE has a similar issue:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=129866

Looking at submissions of this patch "upstream", I found several
references on this list, but no answer:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=datcompression&submit=Search&idxname=bug-cpio

What is your (Sergey?) opinion on this patch?

Sylvain Beucler <beuc@gnu.org> ha escrit:

Apart from some minor issues, it is OK. However, to
use a patch of that size I will need a FSF copyright assignment from
its author. Is it possible?

Regards,
Sergey

Clint, do you know about this?

No. I'm not clear on who the copyright holder owuld be in this case.