Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 19:27:11 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: DAT: reading with blocksize=256K Message-ID: <199612261827.TAA03226@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199612261814.UAA03704@cantina.clinet.fi> from Heikki Suonsivu at "Dec 26, 96 08:14:02 pm"
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As Heikki Suonsivu wrote: > I have been able to read my old backups written with 1024k blocksize. They > secret was to use ddd instead of dd. This must be unrelated to the other problem. If they were written with 1024 K blocksize on a FreeBSD machine, they were actually written with 64 KB instead. The limit is in physio(9) (UTSL), and could not be changed by whatever trickery from a userland program. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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