[Bacula-commits] SF.net SVN: bacula:[8919] trunk/docs/manuals/en/problems/tapetesting.tex

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Revision: 8919
          http://bacula.svn.sourceforge.net/bacula/?rev=8919&view=rev
Author:   ricozz
Date:     2009-06-23 12:14:34 +0000 (Tue, 23 Jun 2009)

Log Message:
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ebl  add a note about /sys/class/scsi_tape/nst0/default_compression, fix #1314

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/docs/manuals/en/problems/tapetesting.tex

Modified: trunk/docs/manuals/en/problems/tapetesting.tex
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--- trunk/docs/manuals/en/problems/tapetesting.tex	2009-06-23 11:56:35 UTC (rev 8918)
+++ trunk/docs/manuals/en/problems/tapetesting.tex	2009-06-23 12:14:34 UTC (rev 8919)
@@ -778,10 +778,13 @@
 \index[general]{Tape Hardware Compression and Blocking Size}
 \index[general]{Size!Tape Hardware Compression and Blocking Size}
 
-As far as I can tell, there is no way with the {\bf mt} program to check if
-your tape hardware compression is turned on or off. You can, however, turn it
-on by using (on Linux): 
+You should be able to verify the tape compression status with sysfs on Linux.
+\begin{verbatim}
+cat /sys/class/scsi_tape/nst0/default_compression
+\end{verbatim}
 
+You can, turn it on by using (on Linux): 
+
 \footnotesize
 \begin{verbatim}
 become super user


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