On Saturday 08 February 2003 13:51, John R. Jackson wrote: >>John, could you refresh us on how tapetype goes about determining >>the size of a drives filemark? > >The amtapetype program is actually pretty well commented, but it > goes like this. [...snip to protect the bored]
Thanks John, I was wondering how that was done, and I can now see the potential for an erronious value to be reported. I also don't see any way out of it short of writing thousands of much shorter files in order to achieve the sort of granularity we can measure in bytes. Throw in the variables of compression and it all turns into just a fairly accurate SWAG anyway. :) -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.23% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
