On Tuesday, March 14, 1995 at 10:58:59 AM UTC-8, Michael Joosten wrote:

In article <3jngbn$n...@schooner.aoc.nrao.edu> rmi...@newshost.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner) writes:

Under SunOS, the default block size is
20. But under Solaris, the default block size is 1.

Does anyone know why this was changed? All the other OSs I've used,
including a few SysV variants, use 20 as the default blocking factor.
Making Solaris different is a real pain, and will impact the perfor-
That varies. 'Pure' SysV tars apparently only use bs=1 by default, as
e.g. an old Pyramid with OSx 4.4/5.1 in att universe. Some companies have apparently decided this to be infinitely stupid and adopted the way BSD tar does it. Doing bs=1 with a fast 1/2" magtape is really a fun to hear...
"Ah, Unix, which one do you mean? Flavour? Why? There are as many flavours as there Unices..." 8-(

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I had the same problems.

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