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Re: tar's default block size & shoe-shinning
2006-06-19 10:08:00
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 at 3:59pm, Cyrille Bollu wrote
Wow...That's better:
[root@srv-fhq-bkp cron.d]# time dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nst0 bs=2048k
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Great idea! ;) (cf my previous email)
count=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
real 0m27.593s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.660s
speed is 75MB/s!
What a poor hardware configuration I have here....
Indeed. What *is* your SCSI config. In general, you probably want the
tape drive at least on its own channel, if not its own card.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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