>>>>> On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 22:17:24 +0200, Rudolf Cejka said: > > Kern Sibbald wrote (2006/07/05): > > On Tuesday 27 June 2006 12:57, ?ge R?bekk wrote: > > > When forward spacing to a file far into the tape, like file# 150, it can > > > take up to 30 minutes for it to complete, and it feels a bit too slow. > > > Are there any methods to speed this up? FreeBSD 6.1 using a Dell PV132T > > > with an IBM Ultrium-2 LTO2 drive. > > > > Complain to the FreeBSD tape driver programmers to write one that > > corresponds > > to modern specs such as Solaris and Linux so that Fast Forward Space file > > will work. Otherwise, Bacula has to do it the slow way. > > Hello, I thought that I explained differences in FreeBSD/Linux/Solaris > sufficiently. Please - the problem is that FreeBSD does exactly what you > tell it to do, OS EOM does mean HW EOM, where count of files is not held > by SCSI specs. And OS FSF does mean HW FSF, where count of files is tracked. > Unfortunately Solaris and Linux with some option compiled which I do not > remember now, both try to be "better" and if you issue OS EOM, they both > issue HW FSF with very big number. Both try to hide a feature of SCSI > specification. > > I'm confident that this is the problem. In Bacula and on FreeBSD, HEOM has > to be set to No, FFSF has to be set to Yes. This is exactly what Bacula > needs: SCSI EOM (HEOM) is insufficient for correct Bacula functionality, > so just FFSF may be used.
I think you are right, but I had problems with setting FFSF to Yes on FreeBSD 4.9. If I recall correctly, it got confused about the EOT condition (I tried both single and double EOF markers). That may be a drive-specific problem of course. __Martin Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
