Hello,
I'm having trouble understanding the tar mt blocksize settings and
operation. From information around the internet, I think this is how it
works but I want to run it by someone else who really knows:
If I run mt blocksize 1024, that sets the actual drive to write data in
1024 byte
In the last episode (Dec 12), Jonathan Wright said:
up if there is a delay in the host computer's data access. However,
I am getting inconsistent information on the variable blocksize
setting in mt and don't know if I should use it or not. One site I
found said that variable blocksizes allow
If I run mt blocksize 1024, that sets the actual drive to write data in
1024 byte blocks. If I make an archive with tar with flag -b 20, tar will
format and send 10,240 byte blocks to the tape drive and the tape drive
will then subdivide those into 1024 byte blocks and put them onto the
