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Date:      Wed, 11 Sep 2002 10:07:49 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Any problems with increaseing the dump(8) block size?
Message-ID:  <20020911170749.GA27252@dragon.nuxi.com>

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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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