Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 14:59:54 -0500 From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> To: "Chris G. Demetriou" <cgd@cs.cmu.edu> Cc: Darren Reed <darrenr@cyber.com.au>, hackers@freebsd.org, port-i386@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Dilemma. how to store DOS directories ? Message-ID: <199703252000.PAA29711@jekyll.piermont.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Mar 1997 13:09:34 EST." <19193.859313374@auchentoshan.pdl.cs.cmu.edu>
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"Chris G. Demetriou" writes: > > I feel a restore_msdos is necessary but what do others think ? (That > > is remember there could be non-FAT16 information to restore, long file > > names, etc (which NetBSD is meant to support but I haven't yet checked that > > out). > > > > I'd agree, but because 'dump' and 'restore' were meant to be > FFS-specific, and have in the past been arbitrarily changed to match > FFS formats. > > Given that the various FAT formats aren't really related, it seems > like a bad idea to try to wedge them into normal 'restore' (or 'dump,' > for that matter). I wonder if gtar's facilities for doing incremental dumps aren't more suitable to dumping FAT file systems than dump is... Perry
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