On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 22:04 +0100, Jon Fairbairn wrote: > I didn't do this, since increasing the buffer size in tzap > (or using "dd ibs=19251200...") gets round the problem > without changing kernel files. However, if the correct thing > to do is to change them, shouldn't it be a kernel config > option rather than a patch? If the problem really can be solved in user-space, then that's clearly the way to go. I was a little fuzzy on whether the dd options actually prevented the overflows or just handled them without croaking the way cat does. > PS I'd still like to know where 188 comes from. I believe it's the packet size for mpeg transport streams. Mitch
