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Re: DAT trouble
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Fri Dec 4 02:55:35 1998
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 16:42:29 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Kai.Makisara@metla.fi
cc: Linux Servers mailing list <SERVER-LINUX@NETSPACE.ORG>,
Linux SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9812032147170.1622-100000@abies.metla.fi>
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Kai Makisara wrote:
> If you can put 3139 1 MB files of random data to the tape with
> compression, the drive probably uses DDS-2 density. If you try the same
> without compression, you probably can fit more files to the tape :-)
I redid the test with compression turned off (according to mt). Using the
same file of 1024000 bytes of /dev/urandom (ok not quite 1mb :), I got
about 3450 files written out before it ran out of space. Is there really
that much overhead in writing 3450 tar files to tape?
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