Re: gzipped output padded with zeros

[Paul Eggert]

Koblinger Egmont <address@hidden> writes:

> I know that plain 'tar' works with block of 10240 bytes, and so a simple
> non-compressed .tar file is a multiple of 10k, but if tar internally
> invokes a compressing program, the output should no longer be justified to
> these sizes.

For blocked devices, tar needs to stick to the block size specified by
the user (or the default blocksize).

tar does not want to treat blocked devices specially, so it sticks to
the block size even if the output is not a blocked device.