Re: FIFO
Joerg Schilling <[email protected]>
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David Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Linux supports both types of block sizes. 'mt status' should tell you what > the 'tape blocksize' is set to. If it is set to a fixed number (usually > 512), then everything is written in blocks of that size, and the block size > on output is arbitrary. > > If the blocksize is zero, then the tape driver uses the blocks that are > written. > > mt setblk 0 > > will give you the conventional blocks size. > > BTW, this isn't any different than how the Solaris god does things. This is different from UNIX as on UNIX, blockable tapes are blocked by default. On Solaris you would be able to switch to a non-blocked mode by editing the st.conf file. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily