On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 05:20:13PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: > > And like I also said, in general, allowing "partial flush" would also > address another issue: The one of blocking the entire tape operation > when using a holding disk, and getting a dump larger that won't fit on > the <runtape> tapes even though it was expected to (either because of > miscalculations during the planner phase or because it specifying the > tape size seems to be a rather inexact science.)
This issue can be solved by a much simpler change: Simply assume an infinite large runtapes setting as long as no taping succeeded on the current run.
