On Thu April 24 2003 10:52, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 10:10:35AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> the propaganda claims because while you /etc dir may compress
>> very well, that dir full of archive or music is going to expand
>> in the hardware compressor, as that sort of stuff has already
>> been smunched and isn't further compressible.
>
>Just an informational note.
>
>I attended a talk at a local SA group about tape technology
> presented by a FUJI rep.
>
>One of the interesting things at that talk was that some newer
> formats/drives have "adaptive compression".  The drive compresses
> data to onboard memory rather than to tape and if the data did
> not compress writes the original data to tape.  It does this
> dynamically, even within a single tape file.

Interesting Jon.  But I'd be willing to bet my old DDS2 drive isn't 
even remotely close to that smart.  Did the speaker name names?

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