[OpenAFS] tapeconfig settings for LTO-5 tape drive
chas williams - CONTRACTOR
chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Fri, 31 May 2013 08:34:45 -0400
On Fri, 31 May 2013 08:09:33 -0400
John Sopko <sopko@cs.unc.edu> wrote:
> I believe the tape label command is reporting 2 TB not 2PB:
>
> 2147483648 <2147483648> x 1k = a 2 followed by 12 digits or Terabytes.
Duh. You're right.
> Anyway I did some testing to prove the limit is 2TB's and also to test out
> my new LTO5 tape
> under Red Hat 6.4 and compression is working and the performance seems ok.
Would you be willing to try a patch to increase this to 4TB?