Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 08:37:19 -0500 (EST) From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> To: cgd@cs.cmu.edu, darrenr@cyber.com.au, hackers@freebsd.org, port-i386@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Dilemma. how to store DOS directories ? Message-ID: <199703281337.IAA13593@Twig.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
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>>> 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... > I'm deliberately avoiding tar/cpio for the following reasons: > * each writes individual files to tape (less efficient on some tape > media, not to mention slower) I have no clue what you're talking about here, at least with respect to tar. A tar tape is a stream of 512-byte blocks, reblocked depending on the blocking factor, typically reblocked to 10K blocks. This is true regardless of where file boundaries fall. > * neither provides interactive restoration (restore if) This is a valid point, though some versions of tar provide a mode that asks for user confirmation for every operation, which can be looked on as a sort of poor-man's version of interactive restore. der Mouse mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
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