* Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin AT zmanda DOT com> [20070808 11:05]:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 04:08:19PM +0200, Cyrille Bollu wrote:
> >    Sorry, I don't understand; This thread doesn't seem to speak about
> >    writing on 2 tapes at the same time (like RAIT but without the
> >    redundancy).
> 
> The original question was the same, and the answer was that you can do
> that with RAIT with the third (parity) drive set to /dev/null, although
> that has certain disadvantages, too.

Don't want to hijack the thread but...
I've been considering implementing that on my local setup.
Can you give more details on what are the drawbacks?

thanks!

> 
> This capability is something we'd like to add in a more permanent sense
> (so e.g., full dumps get written to each tape, instead of blockwise
> striping), but it's a fairly fundamental change and will not be here too
> soon.
> 
> Dustin
> 
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>         Dustin J. Mitchell
>         Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc.
>         http://www.zmanda.com/

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