On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 08:48:45AM +0200, Mozzi wrote:
> HI
> Yes it is updateing I am now on the second set of numbers
> [root@ais-back01 tape-src]# ./tapetype -e 40960 -f /dev/nst0 -t TandbergVS80
> wrote 1235460 32Kb blocks in 102955 files in 275434 seconds (short write)
> wrote 701742 32kb blocks in 116977 files
> 
> It is still busy,almost 6 days now


Way too many files being written.

Your estimate is too low or you are using an old version of tapetype.

I just looked at the source for tapetype.  It seems to take the estimate
with no suffix, as KB.  Thus your estimate is claiming a 40MB total tape
capacity.  This is then divided by 1000 (100?) to determine the size of
each file of random data to write.  Probably you should have given the
estimate as 40000M or 40G

-- 
Jon H. LaBadie                  jon AT jgcomp DOT com
 JG Computing
 4455 Province Line Road        (609) 252-0159
 Princeton, NJ  08540-4322      (609) 683-7220 (fax)