On 10/5/20 2:06 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > The other way to handle it, should we not be able to steal bits which > should be plan A, is to have a metadata type that says 'append this to > the prior record' which would remove the limit entirely.
There's a good idea! Instead of putting headers on an all-tape record, just archive the raw data and call it that. Even though I can handle a long block this way (assuming my SDHC card can keep up, I've never run across this. My controller does double-buffering while reading. --Chuck