Re: [Bacula-users] Quantum Scalar i500 slow write speed

[Henry Y. <he...@Ae...>]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 12:46:49PM +0100, Alan Brown wrote:

> Tape speed testing while writing a repetitive file is useless as 
> hardware compression makes it go a lot faster than natually.
> 
> For tape tests use /dev/random

On (at least) Linux, /dev/random will quickly block - use /dev/urandom instead.

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Henry Yen                                       Aegis Information Systems, Inc.
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