Gavin Scott wrote:
>
> Hence the ;MAXTAPEBUF option on :STORE that, I believe, causes it to
> create 32,768 byte records, cutting the IRG overhead in half.  Of course
> STORE has to bypass the file system to perform reads and writes this
> large, which limits the number of tools that can operate on such a
> tape on a 3000.
>
> G.

Is this file system limit one that will, might or should be changed in
the IA-64 migration?   I seem to recall trying to deal with large census
(or maybe survey) data files that had blocks sizes that challenged this
limit.

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