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Date:      Wed, 11 Sep 2002 10:15:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Any problems with increaseing the dump(8) block size?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209111014160.1572-100000@beppo>
In-Reply-To: <20020911170749.GA27252@dragon.nuxi.com>

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No. Don't change this- people are very well attuned to using an argument
to change it and all your change will do is catch the unwary and
possibly break binary compat on apps that define records based off of
NTREC.


On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, David O'Brien wrote:

> I'd like to make this commit to get better performance on today's
> streaming tape drives.  It seems my DLT drive doesn't stream well with
> the default block size of '10'.
> 
> 
> Index: include/protocols/dumprestore.h
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/include/protocols/dumprestore.h,v
> retrieving revision 1.10
> diff -u -r1.10 dumprestore.h
> --- include/protocols/dumprestore.h	17 Jul 2002 02:03:19 -0000	1.10
> +++ include/protocols/dumprestore.h	19 Jul 2002 05:30:39 -0000
> @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
>   * or TS_ADDR record. Note that it must be a power of two.
>   */
>  #define TP_BSIZE	1024
> -#define NTREC   	10
> +#define NTREC   	64
>  #define HIGHDENSITYTREC	32
>  #define TP_NINDIR	(TP_BSIZE/2)
>  #define LBLSIZE		16
> 


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