On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 11:19:33AM +0200, Paul Bijnens enlightened us: > Matt Hyclak wrote: > > > >Yes, as Paul Bijnens pointed out in a private mail, I had already gone over > >what amanda knew about. In that case, largestfit falls back to the largest > >dump available. > > Actually falls back to "first" (in the queue). But by Murphy's Law > that image rarely fits in the small unknown gap before the Real End > Of Tape. >
My bad... > > >I'm waiting to hear back from him, but Paul said he modified his > >installation to fall back to the smallest dump available in that case, in > >the hope that it might fit on the tape. I think that makes the most sense > >to > >do. > > Attached is a patch against 2.4.4p4. > The idea and patch is actually from Orion Poplawsky, who posted it > to amanda-hackers, including some other fixes: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=amanda-hackers&m=109356032821052&w=2 > > I noticed some spelling errors in some comments in the patch -- those > were by me :-) . > > I haven't had yet the time to download and install 2.4.5. Maybe > it's already included in there. If not, I would be very happy this > is included in the next version. It really helps filling a tape > to the last byte (and saves me a tape each day). Thank you Paul and Orion both. I agree with Paul, if this isn't in 2.4.5 I vote for its inclusion in future releases. Thanks to all for your time, Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
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