SDS and SAN Storage

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On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Brian Amstutz <
brian.amstutz (AT) asburyseminary (DOT) edu> wrote:

Quote:

HP-UX 11i v2
Informix 10.00.FC9

ontape -s -L 0 with TAPEDEV set to /dev/null takes 2 seconds or less
ontape -s -L 0 -t STDIO > /dev/null still running after 30 minutes

Besides the question of "why" is it so much longer when using -t STDIO, my
real question is if this archive were to a "real" file (instead of
/dev/null), would the time difference be significantly longer as well -
i.e. would using -t STDIO > <somefile> take significantly longer than
setting TAPEDEV to <somefile>?

Brian
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Others have already answered your question, but as a suggestion why no
simply use:
ontape -s -L 0 -t /dev/null

This'll get around the need to modify TAPEDEV for those one off occasions.
I don't think it's documented but I seem to remember it working fine for
me.

Ron

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Re: TAPEDEV or -t STDIO? - 08-16-2010 , 10:13 AM