From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 15 08:47:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA17783 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 08:47:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA17774 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 08:47:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id KAA13861; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 10:41:43 -0500 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199608151541.KAA13861@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: Nightmare. To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 10:41:43 -0500 (CDT) Cc: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3597.840123197@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Aug 15, 96 05:33:17 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >> # mount /dev/st0 /mnt > >> # cd /mnt > >> (whirrrr chug) > >> # (cd /usr; tar cvf - .) | tar xf - > >> (whirrrr chug whirrrr chug whirrr chug for several years) > > > >Got to try out. What a pitty I have only 2GB DAT.... But I think I > >can copy many small-sized files to it, if it works, of course. > > I tried it, it doesn't. > > Please fix it if you have time. It is a usefull feature, in particular > for a dat that can do moderately fast positioning. I don't have a DAT handy to try this with, actually (not here at least), does anybody know what problems might prevent this? I am 99% positive that newfs just won't work on a tape :-) But I suspect it might be possible to hack it to work with creative use of dd off a formatted hard disk..? (i.e. newfs the hard disk, dd to tape, maybe then mount the tape?) Could be cool, even useful. Very strange too. ... JG