Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!sun-spots-request From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: 4mm Gigatrend and tar Keywords: Hardware Message-ID: <7403@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 4 May 90 02:09:08 GMT Sender: news@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 8 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 151, message 8 Well, we've got our 4mm dat backup system up and running, so it's time to play the "tune for performance" game. Anybody have any suggestions for determining the best blocking factor to hand over to tar? J. Eric Townsend University of Houston Dept. of Mathematics jet@karazm.math.uh.edu Skate UNIX(tm).