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

[Chris Smart]

2009/8/13 Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal at eyal.emu.id.au>:
> The LTO-4 drive can write at a good speed (120MB/s raw) so it should
> not be the bottleneck most of the time.

I did some tests and with 256k blocks for 85MB/sec write speed, but
that was with a single large tar file. I think it's something to do
with the hundreds of thousands of tiny files that make up my 1.5TB ;-)

-c