Justin Zygmont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have just noticed a problem with tapes written from solaris, linux can't
> read them unless I write them using a block size of 1. (-b1)
> The problem with this, is that any backup to tape takes forever now, and
> is almost useless, yet solaris reads the linux written tapes no problem.
> This is using gnu tar on both systems too.
Linux by default writes tapes that are unblocked and thus incompatible to UNIX.
The best idea is to switch Linux to write blocked tapes using the Linux mt
command variant.
On Solaris you could set the record size to 0 using the MTIO ioctl using the
MTSRSZ subcommand on the open fd.
Jörg
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