blocked records
<storage> Several records written as a contiguous block on magnetic tape
so that they may be accessed in a single I/O operation. Blocking increases the
amount of data that may be stored on a tape because there are fewer inter-block
gaps. It requires that the tape drive or processor have a sufficiently large
buffer to store the whole block.
(1995-04-13)
Nearby terms:
BLOB « block « Block Diagram Compiler « blocked
records
» Block Redundancy Check » Block Started by Symbol »
block-structured
|