On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> 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.

	I would have thought tar would use the device specified, so it
	will use the same device both with and without -z. (I'm sorry -
	I didn't note whether the original poster mentioned whether they
	were using the block device).

		David/absolute
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