On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Matt Temple wrote:
>
>You may have answered a question that just came up.   I don't recycle
>tapes, I relabel them, so their Volume number  (ex linux.0350) keeps
>going up.  Do we now agree that thisw is the case: Recycling doesn't
>implement new block sizes but relabeling does?  (When you relabel, even
>if you don't remove the volume first, I think the new blocksize is
>implemented.   This is the point that Dave Gold and I were disagreeing
>about.   I had written a number of postings and there were numerous
>answers last July, when I went from the default block size to one set
>under stinit.def on my Linux server.

This has not been my experience, at least not with NetWorker 6.1.3 under
Solaris 9 with Sony AIT-2 tapes. I have to physically overwrite an
existing tape label before NetWorker will apply my desired block size to
the tape.

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