cpio causes shoe-shinning on my tape drive

[Andrew Dixon <andrew.dixon@seranoa.com>]

Hi All,
I'm trying to switch to cpio to make backups of my system but I'm
getting really bad results.  When I create a tar archive:
	
	#tar -cv --file /dev/nst0 /home

the tape starts spinning and everything chugs along just fine.  On the
other hand, when I try to make a cpio archive of the same filesystem:

	#find /home -xdev |cpio --create >/dev/nst0

the tape spins and then stops and rewinds and then spins and stops
etc...

Any ideas how to make this work nicer?

Thanks,
Andy

P.S. please cc me on any replies.
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Andrew Dixon
Software Engineer
Seranoa Networks
978.897.3434 x231