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From: HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: BLocksize option needed for tar.c
Message-ID: <18738@nigel.udel.EDU>
Date: 7 May 90 13:15:08 GMT
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I think we need a blocksize option for tar.c.
Have you ever tried to write to a raw disk with 1024-Byte-sectors?
This fails since writes of 512 bytes are invalid on this device.

In my system, it is 3..4 times more efficient to write entire tracks,
another reason for including a blocksize option.

If there is interest, I will include this (it is not difficult). Please mail.

We could do it as it is on the Sun here...
tar cfb 9 /dev/... <files> etc.

Christoph van Wuellen