RE: TAPEDEV or -t STDIO?

I have always suspected, though I don't know and never looked, that when TAPEDEV is set to /dev/null, the archive is never really done. Just some internal processing to make it seem so. Thank you, Jim Goldrick Judson University 573-332-7739 http://www.judsonu.edu jgoldrick@judsonu.edu -----Original Message----- From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Brian Amstutz Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 10:16 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: TAPEDEV or -t STDIO? 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 _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list