On Tuesday 13 November 2001 11:19 am, Philippe Troin wrote: > Have you simply tried "mt-st -f <device> compression 1" ?
I have now tried that and I still get no compression on the drive. > What does mt-st prints when you reboot and/or install the st module ? > Mine says: > > st0: Mode 0 options: buffer writes: 1, async writes: 1, read ahead: 1 > st0: can bsr: 1, two FMs: 0, fast mteom: 0, auto lock: 1, > st0: defs for wr: 1, no block limits: 0, partitions: 1, s2 log: 1 > st0: sysv: 0 > st0: Default block size set to 0 bytes. > st0: Compression default set to 1 The only thing my kernel reports when booting is st: Version 20011003, bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max init. bufs 4, s/g segs 16 and later on st0: Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes. Could this be a problem with devfs? Maybe I should make a kernel without devfs support and see how it goes. Marty Sanborn -- | Martin Sanborn - Dept. of Chemical Engineering - Northwestern University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (847)467-1653 - http://zeolites.cqe.nwu.edu/marty |
