Hi!
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> I read in the FAQ that zftape's compression is almost as good, and I should get
> better results.
zftape-compression was *removed* from the ftape distribution with
4.0, because the compression being done in the kernel space is
considered a bad idea --- it can equally well be done in userland.
Additionally, recovery from hard write errors proved to be a
much harder task with the compression (block size changes in that
case, eliminating the bad sector, and that hurts with fixed block
compression, IIRC). You still can read your compressed tapes,
IIRC, but there has not been a userland implementation of a small
blocksize block compressor[1] yet. Afio, on the other hand,
compresses individual files and thus a corruption kills file.
You are not trying to run a zftape-compressor under 4.x? And
you are not trying to use a write-protected tape?
[1] bzip is a block compressor with 100 to 900k blocksize --
far too large!
-Wolfgang
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