Is there an optimal block size for current tape drives? Once upon a time I acquired the notion that larger tape block sizes yielded better throughput to the tape (subject to the ability of the system to feed data fast enough.)
I've done a number of amtapetype runs on an LTO2 drive at various blocksizes, and can't detect meaningful differences at 32k / 64k / 128k. One run at 256k was killed for running too long. Opinions welcome. Bryan
