From: "Tony Battersby" <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
To: 'ael' <law_ence.dev@ntlworld.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: st.c block limits
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 09:14:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002001c2395d$6e842150$e0019d89@cybernetics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D491F96.5040604@ntlworld.com>
> >># tar -cf /dev/ntape blah_home.tar.bz2; mt tell
> The tape has a real 10GB capacity. (I believe.) The 20BG
> blocks is correct
> for the default block size of 512. So compression is not an
> issue here. And
> the report above is actually 17.8/2 = 8.9 GB :-(
Some compression algorithms will actually expand data by a significant
amount. For example, many implementations of ALDC compression will give a
compression ratio of 0.8 on random data. In your example above you are
writing a .bz2 file (which is already compressed), so it would probably
expand if compressed again. Try turning drive internal compression off:
mt -f /dev/ntape compression off
This might help squeeze a little more data on your tape.
Anthony Battersby
Cybernetics
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-01 13:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-30 20:20 st.c block limits ael
2002-08-01 4:45 ` Kai Makisara
2002-08-01 11:46 ` ael
2002-08-01 13:14 ` Tony Battersby [this message]
2002-08-01 15:49 ` Rogier Wolff
2002-08-01 22:51 ` ael
2002-08-01 11:57 ` ael
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2002-08-01 16:06 Bryan Henderson
2002-08-01 16:53 Bryan Henderson
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