On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:14:45PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> When people have expressed terrible concern for
> large filemarks in their measured tapetypes
> I have often said basically "don't worry".
>
> Well I think we have a new champion filemark.
>
> Just posted to the Faq-O-Matic list was:
>
> define tapetye IBM_ULTRIUM-TD2 {
> comment "just produced by tapetype program"
> length 205572 mbytes
> filemark 534180 kbytes
> speed 18522 kps
> }
>
>
> Note, that is 534 MEGABYTES, 1/2 a GIGABYTE.
>
>
> But again I say, "don't worry"!
> It is only 1/4 of one percent (0.25%)
> of the total tape length of 200GB.
>
> If that measured tapetype and filemark are accurate,
> it will have very little impact on amanda's calculations.
But if you have 200 DLE, amanda will think that the 200 filemarks
will use 100GB (1/2 of your tape). You should worry about that.
Jean-Louis
