Justin Zygmont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> how can that be? because I mentioned that solaris CAN read linux written
> tapes.
>
> > The best idea is to switch Linux to write blocked tapes using the Linux mt
> > command variant.
>
> I don't see any option for that, what are you talking about? There is a
> -B option for read-full-blocks
This is not a tar/star option but e.g. a Linux mt option.
Jörg
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