"Garrett D'Amore" <gdam...@opensolaris.org> wrote:

>     a) at least N bytes (e.g. 64K, 256K, or maybe 1M) are available for 
> writing
>     b) a timer expires -- maybe 10 msec is sufficient?
>     c) the file is closed
>     d) a non-sequential write arrives (but, tapes aren't seekable, are 
> they?)

Blocked tapes are seekable.

Jörg

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