Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 10:41:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nightmare. Message-ID: <199608151541.KAA13861@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <3597.840123197@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Aug 15, 96 05:33:17 pm
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> >> # 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
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