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Date:      Tue, 18 Jun 1996 09:05:11 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        gwk@cray.com, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org, gpalmer@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/1320: dump limits blocksize to 32K
Message-ID:  <199606180705.JAA08047@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199606180549.PAA10352@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Jun 18, 96 03:49:37 pm"

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As Bruce Evans wrote:

> >Won't work either.  It's not restore(8) that's broken, it's physio(9).
> >For both, reading *and* writing.
> 
> The same system is actually capable of handling blocksizes up to 64K.

The correct limit is 64 KB.

> dump(8) is not the place to avoid the brokenness of physio().

Yep, i agree that it should only issue a warning.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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