On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 04:05:54PM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>
> ... ?  After thinking about it some more and realizing that all 
> dumps are local I've commented out the holding disk info.  (Shouldn't 
> localhost dumps bypass the holding disk anyways?)
> 

Only if you don't care about parallelism and streaming your tape drive.
My tape server has 4 distinct HD.  Each could be dumping simultaneously
to the holding disk.

If you do not use a holding disk, the dumps go straight to disk, making
your fastest speed the slowest of dumping, compressing, and tape writing.
And no other dump can be collecting in preparation for writing to tape.

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