LSSBcfs> Our application uses BLOB fairly extensively and can report
LSSBcfs> that the GBAK disk write rate increases very significantly
LSSBcfs> when tables with Blobs are being backed-up, orders of
LSSBcfs> magnitude faster than tables with small rows (YMMV), so this
LSSBcfs> suggests that SEGMENT SIZE does not have any effect on GBAK.

Interesting, usually my experience is just the opposite: gbak usually
slows down in tables with blobs.

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