Dustin J. Mitchell schrieb: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger<[email protected]> wrote: >> Could you describe briefly why? > > Amanda used to need a non-rewinding tape device because it would close > and re-open the device (sometimes in a different process) between > files. It no longer does this.
Umm, sounds like improvement ... this different-process-thing sounds unreliable to me ... >> What has changed in the code/behavior? > > Everything -- the Device API was a complete rewrite of all device > handling in Amanda. fine ;-) Thanks, Stefan
