On Jun 19 Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:

On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 at 3:28pm, Matt Bernstein wrote

Please can the default maxima be increased for the tape, to whatever this list thinks is wise?

Patches welcome. In the meantime, re-compiling is dead easy. ISTR that there *is* an effort (or at least a desire) to move away from configure-time configuration, but there's also a lot of intertia. :)

Is it this trivial?

diff -ur amanda-2.5.1b1-20060619/configure amanda-patched/configure
--- amanda-2.5.1b1-20060619/configure   2006-06-19 19:36:58.000000000 +0100
+++ amanda-patched/configure    2006-06-20 12:36:40.000000000 +0100
@@ -5543,7 +5543,7 @@
        MAXTAPEBLOCKSIZE="$withval"

 else
-  : ${MAXTAPEBLOCKSIZE=32}
+  : ${MAXTAPEBLOCKSIZE=2048}

 fi;

diff -ur amanda-2.5.1b1-20060619/configure.in amanda-patched/configure.in
--- amanda-2.5.1b1-20060619/configure.in        2006-06-19 19:36:37.000000000 
+0100
+++ amanda-patched/configure.in 2006-06-20 12:35:23.000000000 +0100
@@ -1256,7 +1256,7 @@
     [
        MAXTAPEBLOCKSIZE="$withval"
     ],
-    : ${MAXTAPEBLOCKSIZE=32}
+    : ${MAXTAPEBLOCKSIZE=2048}
 )

 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(MAX_TAPE_BLOCK_KB,($MAXTAPEBLOCKSIZE),[Maximum size of a 
tape block in KBytes.])

Please can it be possible to specify custom arguments to dump and its friends?

Currently possible with some clever scripting, and on the TODO list for the dumper API (or whatever it's called these days).

Sorry if I'm being dense

Matt