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Date:      Tue, 18 Jun 1996 15:49:37 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        gwk@cray.com, j@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org, gpalmer@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bin/1320: dump limits blocksize to 32K
Message-ID:  <199606180549.PAA10352@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> E. g. how about dumping to a locally attached device with the
>> intention of restoring the tape on another system?  The other system
>> may very well be capable of handling blocksizes > 32.

>Won't work either.  It's not restore(8) that's broken, it's physio(9).
>For both, reading *and* writing.

The same system is actually capable of handling blocksizes up to 64K.
dump(8) is not the place to avoid the brokenness of physio().

Bruce
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