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From: buck@siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: saving directories when they don't fit on 1 tape
Message-ID: <460@siswat.UUCP>
Date: 4 Oct 89 05:19:43 GMT
References: <1466@xyzzy.UUCP> <81@olsa99.UUCP>
Organization: Photon Graphics,  Houston
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In article <81@olsa99.UUCP>, mje@olsa99.UUCP (Mark J Elkins) writes:
> What guarantee do we have that all 600 ft tapes really have at least
> 600 ft of tape on them?

Even with a 600+ ft tape, given enough write errors and extended
inter-record gaps, one can still run out of tape.  So we have no guarantee
that a fixed amount of data will fit on any given tape.

Somehow we muddle through...


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A. Lester Buck		...!texbell!moray!siswat!buck