Re: [Dump-users] -j/-z compression

[Stelian P. <st...@po...>]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 01:03:53PM +0200, Dick Visser wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Stelian Pop wrote:
> 
> > Did you setup the blocksize to 0 using mt setblk / defblksize ?
> 
> FYI I use 37b dump on a debian system.
> 
> The default mt that come with is identifies like this:
> [root@aline backup]# mt --version
> GNU mt version 2.4.2
> 
> 
> However, there is also a package avaliabe called mt-st:
> [root@aline backup]# apt-get -s install mt-st
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   mt-st
> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 51  not upgraded.
> Inst mt-st (0.7-2 Debian:3.0r3/stable)
> Conf mt-st (0.7-2 Debian:3.0r3/stable)
> 
> Might this be of any benefit?

YES.

GNU mt is a braindead tool, always use mt-st which is written by
the st driver maintainer.

Stelian.
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Stelian Pop <st...@po...>