On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 05:20:13PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
> 
> And like I also said, in general, allowing "partial flush" would also 
> address another issue: The one of blocking the entire tape operation 
> when using a holding disk, and getting a dump larger that won't fit on 
> the <runtape> tapes even though it was expected to (either because of 
> miscalculations during the planner phase or because it specifying the 
> tape size seems to be a rather inexact science.)

This issue can be solved by a much simpler change:  Simply assume an
infinite large runtapes setting as long as no taping succeeded on the
current run.