On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Kai Makisara wrote:
> If you can put 3139 1 MB files of random data to the tape with
> compression, the drive probably uses DDS-2 density. If you try the same
> without compression, you probably can fit more files to the tape :-)
I redid the test with compression turned off (according to mt). Using the
same file of 1024000 bytes of /dev/urandom (ok not quite 1mb :), I got
about 3450 files written out before it ran out of space. Is there really
that much overhead in writing 3450 tar files to tape?
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