On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, David Brownlee wrote:

> 	Using the -z optiont to tar may cause the data to be written to
> 	the drive in variable sized blocks.

Nope. But *with* -z, you'll go through the block tape device, in which
all blocks are at 1024 bytes.
tar will use the raw device, and will use larger blocks by default, and
you can use even larger blocks if you want to.

	Johnny

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