On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:13:15PM -0500, George Sinclair wrote:
> Will it be necessary to relabel a tape or label a "new" (unused) tape
> for the new changes to take effect? In other words, let's suppose I add
> the entries to the stinit.def file, reboot and then try to recover and
> or write data to tapes. Will I still see the block error messages on
> older tapes that were labeled from before the changes were made, but I
> won't see them on tapes labeled after the changes were made or is it
> retroactive?
It's not retroactive. Content that was written before the stinit
change still is using the old block size values and thus will generate
the tape positioning warnings.
I have no clue how tapes that are partially full are handled but in my
experience we saw no issues recovering data off them after changing the
stinit definition.
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