On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 02:54:34PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote:
>
> Paul,
>
> The -e made a huge difference in runtime.
>
> For what its worth, here is the result I received.
>
> # date ; amtapetype -e 400g -f /dev/rmt/3n ; date
>
> Wed May 24 09:23:58 EDT 2006
>
> Writing 2048 Mbyte compresseable data: 33 sec
> Writing 2048 Mbyte uncompresseable data: 33 sec
> Estimated time to write 2 * 409600 Mbyte: 912 sec = 0 h 15 min
> wrote 12386304 32Kb blocks in 189 files in 6539 seconds (short write)
> define tapetype unknown-tapetype {
> comment "just produced by tapetype prog (hardware compression off)"
> length 386048 mbytes
> filemark 0 kbytes
> speed 61853 kps
> }
>
> I really should run it again with HW compresson ON.
If like my ultrium 1, the block count will be exactly the same,
but the speed will be slower.
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