[Gllug] [bit OT] what block size is best for a tape drive?
Adrian McMenamin
adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk
Sun May 7 16:18:01 UTC 2006
I have two of these things now both attached to the same scsi card -
though I not that when one is set to a block size of 512 it cannot read
tapes written with the other one with a block size set to 0. As this
appears to be software configurable, which size is best?
And. while we're at it... how do the various compression options
interact? If I use bz2 on the backup is that irrelevant if compression
is on? Or is the hardware compression achieved through playing the tape
back twice as slowly, or what?
Thanks
Adrian
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