On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 16:12:51 +0100
Kern Sibbald <kern AT sibbald DOT com> wrote:

> For writing to tape (providing it is LTO-n) I strongly recommend a block size 
> not to exceed 256K.
> 

Hi Kern,

Why do you say that?  Is this thread relevant?: 
http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-devel AT lists.sourceforge DOT 
net/msg01246.html

Also, I would like to corroborate the OP's experiences; I had an almost
identical thread about small block size and slow write speed:
http://www.nabble.com/LTO-4-performance--td17407840.html

In fact, I was unable to get higher block sizes working at all with
btape: 
http://www.adsm.org/lists/html/Bacula-users/2008-05/msg00504.html

So I am still stuck at ~22MB/s writing to LTO-4 with the default block
size.

Regards,
-- 
Alex Chekholko 

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