On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Stephen Samuel wrote: > The main purpose of the BS parameters was to take care of I/O devices for > which the write size made a difference. tape drives with variable block > sizes or streaming come to mind. Depending on the tape drive, you could > sometimes end up with very different performance and even effective tape > capacities depending on how big your write block sizes were.
Think this would explain why I only get about 16.5-17 gig out of a DDS-4 tape drive using the default block options (in other words, i didn't specify) on tar? I know some of it is marketting, that they don't _ever_ get 20 gig out of them for various reasons. Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
