On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 11:19:33AM +0200, Paul Bijnens enlightened us:
> Matt Hyclak wrote:
> >
> >Yes, as Paul Bijnens pointed out in a private mail, I had already gone over
> >what amanda knew about. In that case, largestfit falls back to the largest
> >dump available. 
> 
> Actually falls back to "first" (in the queue).  But by Murphy's Law
> that image rarely fits in the small unknown gap before the Real End
> Of Tape.
>

My bad...

> 
> >I'm waiting to hear back from him, but Paul said he modified his
> >installation to fall back to the smallest dump available in that case, in
> >the hope that it might fit on the tape. I think that makes the most sense 
> >to
> >do. 
> 
> Attached is a patch against 2.4.4p4.
> The idea and patch is actually from Orion Poplawsky, who posted it
> to amanda-hackers, including some other fixes:
> 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=amanda-hackers&m=109356032821052&w=2
> 
> I noticed some spelling errors in some comments in the patch  -- those
> were by me :-) .
> 
> I haven't had yet the time to download and install 2.4.5.  Maybe
> it's already included in there.  If not, I would be very happy this
> is included in the next version.  It really helps filling a tape
> to the last byte (and saves me a tape each day).

Thank you Paul and Orion both. I agree with Paul, if this isn't in 2.4.5 I
vote for its inclusion in future releases.

Thanks to all for your time,
Matt

-- 
Matt Hyclak
Department of Mathematics 
Department of Social Work
Ohio University
(740) 593-1263

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