In <[email protected]>, on
09/19/2013
at 08:42 AM, Matthew Stitt <[email protected]> said:
>I also recall discussions about the minimum block size for datasets
>(disk and tape). It seems there was some magic about 20 bytes maybe
>being close to the minimum.
18. Tape, to distinguish a bad record from noise in the gap..
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