On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Rudolf Cejka wrote: > Alan Brown wrote (2006/11/10): >>>> I did not do /dev/zero because of hardware compression. I guess I could >>> turn that off but isn't /dev/random 1 byte at a time?? >> It's fast enough on most systems. > > Really? My experience is that the speed of /dev/random and /dev/urandom > in FreeBSD is far from to be sufficient for LTO3.
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