On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 07:14:56PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Jon LaBadie wrote: > > >Might it be a good idea to have amtapetype note too many files > >being written during the first phase and taking some action? > >Maybe with an option to override the checking. > > My idea was to write only one large file in the first pass, just > until it hits end of tape. Then rewind and write tapesize/100 files > to measure the size of a filemark. > That way you don't need to give an estimated tapesize at all. > > Never got enough time to implement it though:
Just revert to an earlier version :) Way back tapetype wrote pass 1 with no files. Then in pass 2 it wrote lots of small files (one 32K block) comes to mind. That of course was rediculous when V large tape sizes came along. I submitted a change that did a similar calculation to that you suggest, but wrote 1000 files. After that was in place for a while, someone noted a problem. What it was I don't recall, but someone, I think JRJ, changed it to the 100/200 file scheme. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
