Item n: Spooling data while despooling it Origin: Rumko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 21 June 2006 Status:
What: Currently when fd runs out of data or maximum spool size is reached, the sd starts despooling. While it is despooling, the fd does not spool the data until all data has been despooled. For performance reasons (and it would prolong tape's lifetime), the fd should spool data while the data is being despooled by the sd. Why: Better performance on tape drives (writing would be prolonged, because while writing the data, more would be spooled and made available to the sd) and longer lifetimes for the tapes. Notes: I was thinking of 2 solutions. Perhaps a FIFO? But there comes a question, (since i dont know much about fifos) how much data can be put into a fifo at one time and if theres a limit, what happens when you reach it? Will the fd still be able to start piping data into the fifo after it has already filled it once? ... The second solution would be separate files. Perhaps the sd should inform the fd 5 seconds (which should be settable in the config files) before running out of data that the fd should start spooling data into a new file and leave the old one exclusively to the sd (so that there would be no conflicts or any other problem that would fall into this realm). _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
