Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:17:41 +0100 From: Bernd Luevelsmeyer <bdluevel@heitec.net> To: mjacob@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/106973: 'tar' cannot read own tape, but 'pax' can Message-ID: <20061220142055.9C287A891D@christel.heitec.net> References: <200612201126.kBKBQgEv041082@tostan.admin.er.heitec.net> <20061220054818.J53125@ns1.feral.com>
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mjacob@freebsd.org wrote:
>
> Try using tar with a specified blocksize that's equal to the underlying
> h/w blocksize on the tape.
The tape's blocksize is 10 KB, which is tar's default anyway. I tried
various other blocksizes nevertheless, to no avail; except an error in
dmesg ("(sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): 10240-byte tape record bigger than supplied
buffer") for small blocksizes.
Greetings,
Bernd
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