Paul Bijnens wrote:

> I work in variable blocksize.
> On linux:
>  mt -t /dev/st0 defblksize 0    # add this in /etc/rc.*/* somewhere
>  mt -t /dev/st0 setblk 0    # or this just before handling tape
> 
> If your tapes were written with a fixed blocksize, you should
> use that value again (or relabel the tapes, and switch to variable
> blocksize).

Paul, could you tell us about the advantages of using variable blocksize?

Thanks, Stefan