silly question - if you hit EOT while trying to write a DLE to
tape... don't you know pretty closely how much room remains on
the end of the tape - at least to within one chunksize if not
something with smaller granularity ?

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 05:15:30PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Hi, Paul,
> 
> on Montag, 02. Mai 2005 at 15:47 you wrote to amanda-users:
> 
> PB> Just downloaded, examined, installed and tested 2.4.5.
> PB> And the patch is already there.  Even a better, clearer
> PB> implementation (as usual from Jean-Louis).  From the ChangeLog:
> 
> PB> 2004-11-22  Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau AT iro.umontreal DOT ca>
> PB>           * server-src/driver.c (startaflush): Use ALGO_SMALLEST if
> PB> nothing fit.
> 
> >> JL> Sounds like a good addition.
> >> 
> >> Patch against 2.4.5 welcome, as always.
> 
> PB> Not needed.  Already implemented in 2.4.5.
> 
> Shame on me.
> Thanks to JLM.
> -- 
> best regards,
> Stefan
> 
> Stefan G. Weichinger
> mailto:monitor AT oops.co DOT at
> 
> 
> 
> 
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