Why does scanner have to recover the data to standard output just to
rebuild the media database (-m) entry? This makes no immediate sense.
If I have a tape with, say, 10 GB total, and I run scanner as:
scanner -s server device
and it finishes generating a table of contents in one minute or so, why
can't NW do the same thing when using the '-m' option to rebuild the
media index? Why does it have to read the data to do that? I can see
that maybe when using '-i'. What more information does it need to
rebuild the media database entries than what you get back from the table
of contents?
Seems that they ought to have a separate option if you're actually
interested in literally pulling the data off the tape to redirect to
uasm or something like that.
George
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