[Gllug] [bit OT] what block size is best for a tape drive?

[Chris Ebenezer]

On 5/7/06, t.clarke <tim at seacon.co.uk> wrote:
> re tape drives
>
> My experience with Unix at any rate is that tape derives need a block size of
> at least 10k to work efficiently.  If you 'tar' a directory to a tape drive
> with a small block size you may well see (at least on my version of Unix !)
> that the tape drive does not run continuously, but stops and starts.

Doesn't not specifying a block size generally 'do the right thing' these days?

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chris
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