Am 15.12.2014 um 13:43 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: > On 12/15/2014 05:37 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> I was able to relabel the tape after a >> >> mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk 32768 >> >> Is that OK? > > It is better to set the blocksize to 0 (variable), that way you can > easily change it in amanda. > If you set it to fixed block size, then amanda must use the same size, > there is a minimum to 32k in amanda. > >> >> Could someone explain to me why this is better? >> Better performance, I assume? > > yes, better performance, most tape drive recommend to use even bigger > block size.
Thanks, I told the admin there to do so ... ;-) Stefan
