Efficient tape I/O with 386/ix; How??

[Pim Zandbergen]

In article <317 at focsys.UUCP> larry at focsys.UUCP (Larry Williamson) writes:
>Streaming tape I/O with 386/ix seems to be rather slow.  
>
>The command I've used is
>	find . -print | cpio -ovc >/dev/rmt0
>
A better command would be:

	find . -print | cpio -ovcBO /dev/rmt0
This tells cpio to use 5120 byte blocks.

You can also use dd(1) to have arbitrary blocksizes, like in:

	find . -print | cpio -ovc | dd of=/dev/rmt0 obs=20k

Try some different blocksizes for optimum results.
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