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[jira] [Resolved] (COMPRESS-468) Tar block and record size terminology

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-468?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Stefan Bodewig resolved COMPRESS-468.
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    Resolution: Won't Fix

> Tar block and record size terminology
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>                 Key: COMPRESS-468
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-468
>             Project: Commons Compress
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Documentation
>            Reporter: Yuval Turgeman
>            Priority: Minor
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> According to [tar|https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Blocking.html] the definition of a block is 512 bytes, and a record is a collections of blocks that will be written in a single write.  In the commons compress code and docs, it is mentioned that a record has a fixed size of 512 bytes, and a block contains several records, which is the other way around.
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