Tape xfers topping out at 10K per transaction?

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Thu Oct 7 07:13:51 PDT 2004


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 :)

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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