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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!unlisys!desert!mscu.snafu.de!usenet From: matthias@mscu.snafu.de (Matthias Schuendehuette) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SCSI tape block size Date: 6 Oct 1996 09:31:04 GMT Organization: private UUCP-site running FreeBSD 2.1.5.R Lines: 24 Message-ID: <537u8o$b8@mscu.snafu.de> References: <8720ffxq0j.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> <536grc$ba@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.snafu.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.7 In article <536grc$ba@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: [...] > > (Note that 64 KB is the largest blocksize currently supported inside > the kernel by physio(), so there's no use in making the parameter > above larger.) There was a rather large thread in de.comp.os.unix on reading tar-archives from SGI machines which have default blocksizes of 256 KB. Not to acknowledge this nonstandard behaviour of IRIX but would it be a great effort to extend the max. blocksize in physio() and what would be the drawbacks of doing so? Ciao/BSD - Matthias -- ***************************************************************************** Matthias Schündehütte E-Mail: matthias@mscu.snafu.de Solmsstrasse 44 Phone : +49-30-69409824 (MET!) D-10961 Berlin Germany *****************************************************************************