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Re:LTO Tape data storage for Linux nerds by bsdice on Thursday January 27, 2022 @07:01PM (#30108855)
Can tar control block size and maximum file size? If you can't set those to 1 MB and 20 GB respectively, then for LTO-5 and later you will be leaving alot of performance on the table. Like half or more, check file size graph in https://www.bareos.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/optimizing....
Re:LTO Tape data storage for Linux nerds by jwiz on Friday January 28, 2022 @03:33AM (#30112133)
idk man, tar is pretty new, they probably haven't had time to do that yet.