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Re: baffling tape, 3584 HW compression, and stgpool design

2002-09-04 06:30:09
Subject: Re: baffling tape, 3584 HW compression, and stgpool design
From: Dan Foster <dsf AT GBLX DOT NET>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 09:39:20 +0000
Hot Diggety! David Longo was rumored to have written:
> For question 2, on my 3584 drives I have the FORMAT=ULTRIUMC and
> it uses comperssion.  I'm getting about 275GB average on my tapes
> (IBM tapes), have gotten nearly 400GB on some!

Niiice! Sounds like bulk of data must be ASCII or something easily
compressible with repeatable data.

Thanks, using FORMAT=ULTRIUMC and it now indicates use of hardware
compression.

-Dan