From 33b6c480ceb69a6cff9d17a5e43a26415a9e300a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Bollengier Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:14:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] ebl add a note about /sys/class/scsi_tape/nst0/default_compression, fix #1314 --- docs/manuals/en/problems/tapetesting.tex | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/manuals/en/problems/tapetesting.tex b/docs/manuals/en/problems/tapetesting.tex index 86a2e02b..4596d17f 100644 --- a/docs/manuals/en/problems/tapetesting.tex +++ b/docs/manuals/en/problems/tapetesting.tex @@ -778,9 +778,12 @@ the other modes that Bacula needs to function properly. \index[general]{Tape Hardware Compression and Blocking Size} \index[general]{Size!Tape Hardware Compression and Blocking Size} -As far as I can tell, there is no way with the {\bf mt} program to check if -your tape hardware compression is turned on or off. You can, however, turn it -on by using (on Linux): +You should be able to verify the tape compression status with sysfs on Linux. +\begin{verbatim} +cat /sys/class/scsi_tape/nst0/default_compression +\end{verbatim} + +You can, turn it on by using (on Linux): \footnotesize \begin{verbatim} -- 2.39.5