Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 09:13:46 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tape xfers topping out at 10K per transaction? Message-ID: <20041007141346.GA54170@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20041007105050.GA7349@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> References: <20041007025138.GA19296@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> <20041007032416.GK3848@dan.emsphone.com> <20041007105050.GA7349@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>
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In the last episode (Oct 07), Kevin A. Pieckiel said: > I hit the same 10K limit when I use something like this: > > # dd if=/dev/nsa0 of=/dev/null bs=64k > > Is that because tar wrote to the tape with a 10k bock size that even > dd can't read larger blocks? That doesn't seem likely to me, but > then again, what do I know? Blocksize is determined when you write the tape. If you print a document on Letter-size paper, a person reading it can't request it in A4-sized chunks :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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