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Re: don't want files to be divided up on holding disk

2008-07-02 17:33:59
Subject: Re: don't want files to be divided up on holding disk
From: Ian Turner <ian AT zmanda DOT com>
To: Paul Yeatman <pyeatman AT mamacass.ucsd DOT edu>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 16:45:27 -0400
The default is 1 GB, but specifying 0 will just compute a size based on 
INT_MAX. I don't think there is any way to specify unlimited chunksize, but 
you could specify whatever your filesystem limit actually is. (2 TiB for ext2 
with 4KiB blocks)

Just out of curiosity, why do you care?

On Wednesday 02 July 2008 15:05:39 Paul Yeatman wrote:
> Hi, I recently upgraded form Amanda 2.4.4 to 2.6.0.  I used to have
> chunksize commented out altogether for my holding disks to avoid having
> things divided up.  Since the upgrade, it is defaulting to a cnunksize
> of 1G.  Do I simply set it to 0 to not use multiple files?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
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