On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 10:10:35AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> the propaganda claims because while you /etc dir may compress very 
> well, that dir full of archive or music is going to expand in the 
> hardware compressor, as that sort of stuff has already been 
> smunched and isn't further compressible.

Just an informational note.

I attended a talk at a local SA group about tape technology presented by a FUJI 
rep.

One of the interesting things at that talk was that some newer formats/drives
have "adaptive compression".  The drive compresses data to onboard memory
rather than to tape and if the data did not compress writes the original
data to tape.  It does this dynamically, even within a single tape file.

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