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-rwxr-xr-xsnapshots-create.sh3
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diff --git a/snapshots-create.sh b/snapshots-create.sh
index 90eb555..44efdf4 100755
--- a/snapshots-create.sh
+++ b/snapshots-create.sh
@@ -109,6 +109,9 @@ if [ ! -f "${FILENAME%.bz2}" ]; then
>"${EXCLUSION_LIST}"
TAR_OPTIONS=(
+ # Force a small block size
+ --blocking-factor=1
+ --record-size=512
# GNU tar format saves approximately 1K per file in the tarball over POSIX
# format. Multiply ~170k files, and the savings are large.
--format=gnu