Hello All; Thanks to all who replied!!!! My original question was if a dump or a tar was written to tape with the "c" compression factor in the device name, like so; #tar cvf /dev/rmt/0cn <some directory> Would it be necessary for the reading of the same tape to also use the "c" compression option? Like so #tar tvf /dev/rmt/0n <some directory> The unanimous answer is no, it would not be necessary as the compression is implemented in hardware and the h/w would be smart enough to recognize it's own compression and decompress accordingly. Thus a read operation on /dev/rmt/0n would still be successfull if the original write operation used a compression facility e.g. /dev/rmt/0c THANKS FOR ALL WHO REPLIED!!! Warmest Regards Steven Sim Fujitsu Asia Pte. Ltd. _____________________________________________________ This e-mail is confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately. You should not copy or use it for any purpose, nor disclose its contents to any other person. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of my firm shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Jan 18 10:08:39 2006
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