On Mar 2, What EES eet man? wrote
> [tested on SS IPX 64M, root disk is Seagate ST1480N - not the slowest disk
>  in the world, certainly faster than the MICROP 1588-15 in there!]
> 
> Interestingly I found that dumping 20MB at 32k transfers to /dev/null
> averaged 453K/sec, while dumping at 64k transfers to /dev/null averaged
> 415K/sec.
> 
> Curiously, does dump take BLOCKSIZE into account when specifying number
> of blocks ('b' option)?  This would be a BAD thing, in my opinion, because
> in single-user mode, one might have BLOCKSIZE defaulting to 512, while in
> multi-user mode, it might be set to 1k.  Guess what happens when you
> read back tapes?  Could we make BLOCKSIZE something of a constant for
> tape handling?

No, dump doesn't use BLOCKSIZE.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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