On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 10:46:30AM -0500, Frank Smith wrote:
> --On Friday, June 03, 2005 10:14:50 -0500 "Erik P. Olsen" <erik AT epo DOT 
> dk> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 13:21 +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> >> Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> > 
> >> > Could someone explain to me what the message below from amdump
> > means?
> >> > Especially the "fm 7 [OK]"
> >> 
> >> fm = filemark: what a tape writes after a file.
> >> [OK] means there were not errors so far.
> > 
> > OK, not to be confused with no. of dumped files, I assume.
> 
> Technically, it is the number of files written to to tape, but each
> file is a dump image consisting of many source files, so think
> of it as a count of the DLEs written to tape.
> 
> >> >   taper: tape DailySet103 kb 1131232 fm 7 [OK]


Does taper adjust the reported number of filemarks for the
tape header and trailer files it might write to the tape?

I.e. is "fm" the number of DLEs written or is it off by
1 or 2 for the header and trailer files?

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