Re: [Networker] Best usage of tape drives
2005-10-25 18:13:24
> Thanks Darren,
>
> In jbedit it asks if the tape drive will be shared. I thought that
> meant two drives could work together
> to save large data sets faster than one drive working alone. However it
> might mean sharing the tape drive between
> two hosts, which wouldn't apply to this situation.
That's exactly correct. There's no way to distribute one datastream
across multiple drives.
You can try to split a filesystem into multiple streams, but that isn't
usually the easiest thing to do.
--
Darren Dunham ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area
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