Steven Sim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Gurus;
>
> I am curious about the tape devices compression facilities in Solaris.
>
> I am assuming that if I do something like
>
> #tar cvf /dev/rmt/0c <some directory>
>
> Solaris will use the compression capable device driver to write onto
> /dev/rmt/0
>
> Assuming that the hardware (in this case a DAT 70 (DDS 5??) tape drive)
> has hardware compression,will a command like
>
> #tar tvf /dev/rmt/0
>
> be able to scan the TOC of the same tar file that was written using the
> /dev/rmt/0c device driver?
>
> Or do I have to do
>
> #tar tvf /dev/rmt/0c
This may depend on the firmware of the tape drive.
Jörg
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