I'm looking through the code now, for the first time.  I think I can
answer my question, but can I change the solution.

autoflush does not change the available tape size.

However, the planner does use the tape length, and the number of
tapes, when the dumping calculation is made.

However, the first use of conf_autoflush is after the tape length
calculation.  I know the autoflush is being moved around a bit, at
least in test code, so that flushing can happen during the
calculation.  I haven't looked at this change yet.


Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com> writes:

> On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 11:13:21PM -0800, Kevin Dalley wrote:
>> When I run with:
>> 
>>      autoflush on
>> 
>> the size of the flushed data is not taken from the total size of the
>> tape.
>> 
>> Is there a way, when using autoflush, to have the amdump use the tape
>> size minus the size of the previous data? 
>
> Does tapesize come into play for the planner?
>
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