> 1. When FTPing to a tape drive, can I drive the tape drive without > excessive shoe shining? i.e. get any decent performance out of it? But > then, at times, I'm not sure I care about performance, if it fits within > the batch window.
Dunno about VSE, but when I've tried this with z/OS (yes, I know it's not supported, so sue me), the holdup is the tape, not the network (or at least from within the machine). It'll depend a lot on how efficient the OS is when moving network buffers to tape and how fast you can write on the tape and clear buffers. > 2. With all the translation going on, when I ftp the tape file back to > Linux disk, will it still be in the proper format (i.e. block size, recfm, > or whatever it looks like on a Linux file system). Linux files are just byte streams. There is no internal structure to preserve, so as long as you transfer in binary mode, Linux doesn't care. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
