Not at all.....if the total amount of data provided to the drive isabove the 
"minimum streaming rate" of the drive, then the drive will runat a constant 
speed, and the slower client will just have have fewerblocks on the tape than 
the faster clients.
So your data interleaving on the tape, if client A and B are twice asfast as 
client C, will look like:
A-B-A-B-C-A-B-A-B-C-A-B-A-B-C-A-B-A-B-C....
Well, sort of...it won't be as neat as that.
The idea of multiplexing is to provide data to the drive fast enough, 
iecombining datastreams from multiple clients, so that it will not need 
tostop/rewind.


Paul
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> -----Original Message-----> From: Hampus Lind [mailto:hampus.lind at 
> rps.police.se] > Sent: November 26, 2006 3:06 AM> To: 'Justin Piszcz'; 
> 'WEAVER, Simon'> Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu; Paul Keating> 
> Subject: SV: [Veritas-bu] LTO-3 and MPX> > > So what happens on the drive 
> side if I have MPX set to 3 and > then start a> backup of 2 clients that can 
> push data fast and 1 client that > are really> slow?> > Is it the slow client 
> that decide the speed of the drive then > and make it> stop/rewind/paus etc. 
> and the other clients have to wait for > the slower 
> one?====================================================================================
La version fran?aise suit le texte anglais.
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