Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 07:47:55 +1100 (EST) From: Darren Reed <darrenr@cyber.com.au> To: perry@piermont.com Cc: 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: <199703252047.HAA06323@plum.cyber.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199703252000.PAA29711@jekyll.piermont.com> from "Perry E. Metzger" at Mar 25, 97 02:59:54 pm
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In some mail I received from Perry E. Metzger, sie wrote > > > "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... 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) * neither provides interactive restoration (restore if) Darren
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