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

Yuval Turgeman created COMPRESS-468:
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             Summary: Tar block and record size terminology
                 Key: COMPRESS-468
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-468
             Project: Commons Compress
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Documentation
            Reporter: Yuval Turgeman


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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