Cejka Rudolf wrote (2017/06/02):
> Ivan Adzhubey wrote (2017/06/01):
> > b) What is the effect of MaximumFileSize option and what would be its 
> > optimal 
> > value for my IBM LTO-5 SAS drives? I have used 8GB value found in one of 
> > the 
> > list posts, while the documentation suggests 2GB for LTO-4. But even set at 
> > 8GB this would create lots of EOF marks on a 1.5TB tape, do we really need 
> > so 
> > many?
> 
> Hi, I do use 16 GB. Every EOF mark means around 3 seconds delay. So if you 
> have
> over 200 files on the tape using 8 GB, it is around 10 minutes extra per tape.

Hi, small fix. It seems that it is even around 5-6 seconds delay resulting in
extra 20 minutes per tape. And worse, I'm afraid that the tape drive do not
stop nor slowdown tape movement, which would mean over 10 % of the tape lost
because of filemarks. Hope that I'm wrong.

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Rudolf Cejka <cejkar at fit.vutbr.cz> http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~cejkar
Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology
Bozetechova 2, 612 66  Brno, Czech Republic

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