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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware Subject: Re: Tape backup speed FreeBSD v. Linux Date: 5 Nov 1995 22:10:57 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 15 Message-ID: <47j991$im5@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <1995Oct30.090118.28117@state.systems.sa.gov.au> <47al3r$3ln@dove.nist.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:8230 comp.os.linux.hardware:20289 Robert Bagwill <bagwill@kangaroo.ncsl.nist.gov> wrote: >There's a nice little program called "buffer" by Lee McLoughlin ><L.McLoughlin@doc.ic.ac.uk> that uses SYSV shared memory to reblock >data. My QIC tape streams using it. Umm, why shoot the sparrow with a cannon? You don't need steenkin' SYSV shared mem for this, team(1) does the very same using plain V7 semantics. It's in the ports. (And actually, ``port''ing it is almost only a plain ``make''.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)