I filed a feature request to increase the tape size. I am good with 2TB at
this time. I will wait until it gets incorporated into a new release.
Thanks anyways.


On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:34 AM, chas williams - CONTRACTOR <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 31 May 2013 08:09:33 -0400
> John Sopko <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I believe the tape label command is reporting 2 TB not 2PB:
> >
> > 2147483648 <2147483648> x 1k = a 2 followed by 12 digits or Terabytes.
>
> Duh.  You're right.
>
> > Anyway I did some testing to prove the limit is 2TB's and  also to test
> out
> > my new LTO5 tape
> > under Red Hat 6.4 and compression is working and the performance seems
> ok.
>
> Would you be willing to try a patch to increase this to 4TB?
>



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