[clug] LTO-4 drive, turn on compression? [SEC=PERSONAL]

[Chris Smart]

2009/8/13 Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net>:
>
> You need at least a 64K block size to stream on an LTO2, from my testing, and
> better 256K.  With LTO3 improving the streaming speed I would guess that 256
> or 512K blocks would be a good strategy.
>

Hey Daniel,

Actually I am using 256k blocks. I ran some tests and this was the
fastest. I think the problem is that I have sooo many little files.
I'll run some more tests against the same little files.

-c