On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 11:19:33AM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> Matt Hyclak wrote:
> >
> >Yes, as Paul Bijnens pointed out in a private mail, I had already gone over
> >what amanda knew about. In that case, largestfit falls back to the largest
> >dump available. 
> 
> Actually falls back to "first" (in the queue).  But by Murphy's Law
> that image rarely fits in the small unknown gap before the Real End
> Of Tape.

Is there a reason to not use "smallest", giving best chance to fit?

> The idea and patch is actually from Orion Poplawsky, who posted it
> to amanda-hackers, including some other fixes:
> 
...
> 
> I haven't had yet the time to download and install 2.4.5.  Maybe
> it's already included in there.  If not, I would be very happy this
> is included in the next version.  It really helps filling a tape
> to the last byte (and saves me a tape each day).

Sounds like a good addition.

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