On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 08:00:21AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
> Jon,
> 
> amtapetype should terminate once it fill the disk.
> 
> Jean-Louis

I didn't see any smiley there ;) so I'll just note that once
amtapetype seemed to recognize the file driver I half-expected
it to also see the EOF like taper does.

jl

> 
> Jon LaBadie wrote:
> >Back to back posts to the list on amtapetype and the file:driver
> >made me wonder, will amtapetype work with virtual tapes?  Not
> >that it would be of any benefit, just wondered if it would.
> >
> >Well, to my surprise, amtapetype does "seem to work" with vtapes.
> >But ...
> >
> >It recognized the slot and "amanda tape" in the slot,
> >refusing to go on.
> >It could be forced to overwrite the "amanda tape" in the slot
> >with the -f option.
> >It did its compression test.
> >It wrote its files to the virtual tape slot.
> >And wrote and wrote and wrote.
> >
> >I.e. unlike amdump/amflush that appear to see a pseudo EOF
> >when their writing reached the 14GB size listed in the
> >tapetype definition (and the estimate, -e option),
> >amtapetype never sees the EOF.  Of course it is trying
> >to figure out what that size limit is supposed to be,
> >so maybe it is reasonable that it never got an EOF ;)
> >
> >Not sure which surprised me most, that it started and worked
> >well, or that it did not end normally.
> >
> >  
> 
> 
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