Re: Any problems with increaseing the dump(8) block size?

2002-09-12 Thread Bruce Evans
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 11), David O'Brien said: I'd like to make this commit to get better performance on today's streaming tape drives. It seems my DLT drive doesn't stream well with the default block size of '10'. Only if we also raise dd's

Re: Any problems with increaseing the dump(8) block size?

2002-09-12 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 10:16:40PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 11), David O'Brien said: I'd like to make this commit to get better performance on today's streaming tape drives. It seems my DLT drive doesn't stream well with the default block size of '10'. Only if

Any problems with increaseing the dump(8) block size?

2002-09-11 Thread David O'Brien
I'd like to make this commit to get better performance on today's streaming tape drives. It seems my DLT drive doesn't stream well with the default block size of '10'. Index: include/protocols/dumprestore.h === RCS file:

Re: Any problems with increaseing the dump(8) block size?

2002-09-11 Thread Matthew Jacob
No. Don't change this- people are very well attuned to using an argument to change it and all your change will do is catch the unwary and possibly break binary compat on apps that define records based off of NTREC. On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, David O'Brien wrote: I'd like to make this commit to get

Re: Any problems with increaseing the dump(8) block size?

2002-09-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 11), David O'Brien said: I'd like to make this commit to get better performance on today's streaming tape drives. It seems my DLT drive doesn't stream well with the default block size of '10'. Only if we also raise dd's and tar's default blocksizes to 64k as well :)