Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 15:34:23 +1000 (EST) From: Darren Reed <darrenr@cyber.com.au> To: jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com (John F. Woods) Cc: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, darrenr@cyber.com.au, hackers@freebsd.org, port-i386@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Dilemma. how to store DOS directories ? Message-ID: <199703300534.PAA27792@plum.cyber.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199703290745.CAA02609@jfwhome.funhouse.com> from "John F. Woods" at Mar 29, 97 02:45:20 am
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In some mail I received from John F. Woods, sie wrote > > >> If I recall correctly, on exabyte, EOF markers are "1MB" in size (although > >> newer tape formats aren't quite so braindead). So more files on the tape > >> means less space for real data. When ypu're backing up in excess of 100,000 > >> files onto the one tape, it makes a difference. > >That was true of the original 8200 format. Later formats used on the 8500 > >series offered two sizes of tape mark. The long mark, and a short mark > >which chews up some 128k. > > Of course, neither tar nor cpio stores one disk file per tape "file". There > is one EOF mark per tar archive, not per disk file. If you back up 100,000 > files on one tape, you get one EOF mark. If you do multiple backups per > tape, you have one EOF mark per backup, but you're talking tens, not hundred > thousands, of EOF marks in that case. Ahh...well, I've been too long in the HP-UX camp...they have an abdomination called "fbackup", which together with "frecover" claim to some hybrid of tar/cpio/dump but has got to be the worst thing I've ever had to use (has the inefficiences I describe above).
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