From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 2 21:35:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.itga.com.au (ns.itga.com.au [202.53.40.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 205D537B64B for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 21:35:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by ns.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA49943; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 14:35:19 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by lightning.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA16377; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 14:35:18 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <200008030435.OAA16377@lightning.itga.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 From: Gregory Bond To: "Shawn Barnhart" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rdump between two FreeBSD machines In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 02 Aug 2000 23:30:26 -0500. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 14:35:18 +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Why was it implemented that way? Because dump needs to seek() all over the raw disk device, but only writes to the tape sequentially. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message