Re: [Bacula-users] Slow forward spacing on LTO2 drives

[Kern S. <ke...@si...>]

On Tuesday 27 June 2006 12:57, =C5ge R=F8bekk wrote:
> When forward spacing to a file far into the tape, like file# 150, it can
> take up to 30 minutes for it to complete, and it feels a bit too slow.
> Are there any methods to speed this up?  FreeBSD 6.1 using a Dell PV132T
> with an IBM Ultrium-2 LTO2 drive.

Complain to the FreeBSD tape driver programmers to write one that correspon=
ds=20
to modern specs such as Solaris and Linux so that Fast Forward Space file=20
will work.  Otherwise, Bacula has to do it the slow way.

The other solution that you won't like is to switch OSes.