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Date:      Thu, 12 Sep 2002 08:47:38 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Any problems with increaseing the dump(8) block size?
Message-ID:  <20020912154738.GC32057@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020912031640.GC13261@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <20020911170749.GA27252@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020912031640.GC13261@dan.emsphone.com>

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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 we also raise dd's and tar's default blocksizes to 64k as well :)

Why do these two need to be linked to dump(8)?

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