Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 00:16:30 -0600 From: Terry Lee <terry@uivlsi.csl.uiuc.edu> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Faster tape throughput Message-ID: <199501170616.AA01149@uivlsi.csl.uiuc.edu>
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>> I've been experimenting with "buffer"; it is similar to "dd" but >> enables my wt tape drive to actually stream. There is also "ddd", though I >> haven't tested it on FreeBSD yet. > ... >Then there is `team' by Piercarlo Grandi (see Vol 27, Issue >195, comp.source.unix), which relies Unix V7 features only >(and hence runs on pretty much every Unix system). A `team' ... >Bakul Thanks, Bakul! I just tried "team", and its works great! During my informal test on our SPARCstation 10/30, team kept the tape streaming better than both buffer and ddd. If we can get team on the cpio.flp floppy, that would be great! Boy could I have used this back when I was running Bell Tech. SVR3! :-) Terry Lee terry@uivlsi.csl.uiuc.edu
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