Re: [Dump-users] RE: Dump HOWTO

[Bernhard E. <be...@be...>]

Stelian Pop wrote:
[...]
> Wouldn't that be that, for some reason, your DDS-2 drive is configured
> for only a fixed blocksize of 32k ?

No, if I really set the drive to 32k blocks, dump slows down:

# mt setblk 32768
# /sbin/dump 0a /tmp
  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Jun 27 11:37:09 2000
  DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
  DUMP: Dumping /dev/hdb11 (/tmp) to /dev/nst0
  DUMP: Label: none
  DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
  DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
  DUMP: estimated 114085 tape blocks.
  DUMP: Volume 1 started at: Tue Jun 27 11:37:10 2000
  DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]

[waiting, waiting, tape drive's LED does not blink, nothing seems to
happen]