On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 05:53:43PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> Jon LaBadie wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 04:02:29PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> >
> >>All that said, when using an LTO drive, you may have hardware 
> >>compression enabled anyway, because the hw compr algorithm in those
> >>drives does not expand uncompressable data.
> >
> >
> >Maybe the amtapetype message should be revised to something like:
> >
> >   hardware compression off (or drive uses a dynamic compression algorithm)
> >
> 
> Actually the message is still correct.
> amtapetype does detect if hw compr is enabled.
> And you would notice the effect if you wrote without software compression.
> The fact that the algorithm does not expand data is something else.


My misreading of your statement.  I missed the "when using an LTO drive"
and thought you meant hardware compression might have been on when
amtapetype was run but could have been fooled.

Sorry bout dat.
jl
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