On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Henry Yen <he...@aegisinfosys.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 12:46:49PM +0100, Alan Brown wrote: > >> Tape speed testing while writing a repetitive file is useless as >> hardware compression makes it go a lot faster than natually. >> >> For tape tests use /dev/random > > On (at least) Linux, /dev/random will quickly block - use /dev/urandom > instead.
Since these tend to be slow I would just create a large file from one of these. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users