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Results of trying to vary GNU tar blocking factor to increase tape write/read speed for 2K content

Submitted by Aleksey Tsalolikhin on Fri, 2010-07-09 16:17.

My results transferring 685 2K frames (11MB per file, 8.1 GB total) using GNU tar to/from LTO4 tape

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GNU tar Blocking Factor	Write LTO4	Read LTO4
1024	2m34s	1m16s
2048	1m24s	1m16s
4096	1m19s	1m34s