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Aucbvax.4867 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Sat Oct 31 21:13:46 1981 Re: tape records >From eps@UCLA-Security Sat Oct 31 21:04:08 1981 A friend of mine likes to write tapes with 60K block sizes under VMS (saving one tape in four). This ties up the massbus for 3-4 seconds at a time, locking out disk drives (which get rather upset and start complaining about data lates). I don't know of any Unix programs that like records larger than 10K, but I suspect this is only because most tape munching programs allocate their buffers with fixed sizes(?), not to mention the fact that there are an awful lot of 11s in the world... something about "compatibility" I think.

--Eric

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