On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 03:49:39PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jan 28), Jaime said: > > > > Thanks. Would this decrease the ability of other Unixes being able > > to read the tape? For example, using pax (which can read tar > > archives) or GNU's tar? > > It shouldn't. At worst you may have to specify a matching blocksize > argument when reading.
I once had problems with an SGI user writing tapes with megabyte block size. Works on ancient SGI IRIX but nowhere else that I know of. Worse, IRIX remembered the last block size used on a tape device, across multiple users. Learned to always set block size when writing else no telling how it would go. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
