>With the variable block size device the drive makes no assumptions about the
>data coming down the pipe and does not buffer. This means every write request
>goes stright to the tape.
Ah, I see. None of the device I'm familiar with do that (that I know of).
>Would anything break if I set the TAPE_BLOCK_SIZE to 8 in common-src/amanda.h?
I wouldn't do it. While making the user defined blocksize change I found
quite a few places things were mixed up w.r.t. tape blocks, disk blocks,
and even network buffering, and I think there were even some hard coded
values floating around (sigh).
Let me think on this a bit.
>Robert Minsk
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