Sun Microsystems MEDIACENTER 2.1 - Manual (Page 168)

B-14 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997
The recommended block size of the tar format is 500 512-byte blocks, or 256,000
bytes. The default blocking factor for tar is 20 blocks, or 10,240 bytes.
B.6.2 Tapes
The Sun MediaCenter server supports both 4-mm and 8-mm cartridge tapes.
B.7 Example
This section provides an example of a content package—the TOC file and the index
and data files for each bit stream—and its storage on a tape using the
tar format.
The names of the files that make up our example content package are shown in the
tar output, below:
The tar tf command above lists the table of contents on a tar file or device,
/dev/rmt/0 in this example. The tar output indicates that the content package
consists of a TOC file, bambi.TOC , and five bit streams associated with the content
at various speeds. Each bit stream contains an index file ( .index ) and an MPEG
data file ( .mpeg ).
In our example, as in FIGURE B-2 on page B-13, the index files for a content package
appear immediately after the TOC file on the tape.
server# tar tf /dev/rmt/0
bambi.TOC
bambi.1x.index
bambi.7x.index
bambi.10x.index
bambi.7nx.index
bambi.10nx.index
bambi.1x.mpeg
bambi.7x.mpeg
bambi.10x.mpeg
bambi.7nx.mpeg
bambi.10nx.mpeg