> I have LTO-1, LTO-2 and LTO-3 drives.  We also use client side
> compression to save LAN traffic, disk space (on advanced file devices)
> and data passing trough the hosts and SAN while cloning.
>
> One thing that these drives do to keep streaming, is to write some
> filler in if the in-coming data is not fast enough.  I do not know
> what the parameters of this process, but it causes more tape to be
> used while writing the same amount of data.

Do you have any references for this?  I know of some older drives that
would disable compression (but not write filler) to try to keep
streaming rates up.  But I've never seen documents that suggest LTO
models do anything similar.

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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
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