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Date:      Thu, 30 Jul 1998 19:17:44 +0200
From:      Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/restore tape.c
Message-ID:  <19980730191744.A4817@klemm.gtn.com>
In-Reply-To: <199807281850.LAA10460@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Warner Losh on Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 11:50:03AM -0700
References:  <199807281850.LAA10460@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 11:50:03AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> imp         1998/07/28 11:50:03 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sbin/restore         tape.c 
>   Log:
>   Commit patch from Tor Egge to fix the "large filesystem restore" problem.
>   This appears to work for me in the old case, but I don't have large
>   enough filesystems to test the fix case.

While you are at it... Could you or somebody else spend some work 
digging around, why Elizabeth Zwicky's torture test causes dump/restore
so many trouble when it has to deal with very long file/pathnames ?

I wrote this already to -current some days ago, maybe the message
has been ignored among the others and because of 2.2.7 ...

Elizabeth Zwicky's torture test program (a perl script creating many
nasty files) found out, that dump is the best program for doing backup's
because it could deal with every problem. She told me now, after
seeing the test results for -current, that she can't understand
how broken dump/restore now is.

You can find the torture test script and a transscript of a session
showing the trouble here:

http://www.freebsd.org/~andreas/download/torture.pl
http://www.freebsd.org/~andreas/download/typescript.freebsd-current-3.0-980720

File sizes:
-rw-r--r--  1 andreas  andreas   12595 23 Jul 21:57 torture.pl
-rw-r--r--  1 andreas  andreas  128528 23 Jul 21:57 typescript.freebsd-current-3.0-980720

Her results from 1991 you can find in this paper:

	http://reality.sgi.com/zwicky_neu/testdump.doc.htm

-- 
Andreas Klemm                                http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas
     What gives you 90% more speed, for example, in kernel compilation ?
          http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~fsmp/SMP/akgraph-a/graph1.html
             "NT = Not Today" (Maggie Biggs)      ``powered by FreeBSD SMP''



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