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Re: solaris/sunos4.1.?/tar problems

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by: KP KP - Mon, 15 Aug 2022 15:41 UTC

On Tuesday, March 14, 1995 at 10:58:59 AM UTC-8, Michael Joosten wrote:
> In article <3jngbn$n...@schooner.aoc.nrao.edu> rmi...@newshost.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner) writes:
> >
> >Under SunOS, the default block size is
> >20. But under Solaris, the default block size is 1.
> Does anyone know why this was changed? All the other OSs I've used,
> including a few SysV variants, use 20 as the default blocking factor.
> Making Solaris different is a real pain, and will impact the perfor-
> That varies. 'Pure' SysV tars apparently only use bs=1 by default, as
> e.g. an old Pyramid with OSx 4.4/5.1 in att universe. Some companies have
> apparently decided this to be infinitely stupid and adopted the way BSD tar
> does it. Doing bs=1 with a fast 1/2" magtape is really a fun to hear...
> "Ah, Unix, which one do you mean? Flavour? Why? There are as many flavours as
> there Unices..." 8-(
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I had the same problems.

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solaris/sunos4.1.?/tar problems	KP KP

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