From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 28 14:46:22 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA13031 for current-outgoing; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 14:46:22 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA13024 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 14:46:15 -0800 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA24433; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 14:45:24 -0800 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199511282245.OAA24433@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: Recent changes to `dump' To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 14:45:24 -0800 (PST) Cc: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9511281946.AA04068@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett A. Wollman" at Nov 28, 95 02:46:00 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1038 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I understand your point, but I also see why it changed.. I often wonder "Is that DISK blocks or Tape Blocks?" (I don't use Dump that often) > > I noticed that my backups stopped working over Thanksgiving break. > The cause turned out to be that the format of `dump''s informational > messages has changed to add the qualifier `tape ' in front of > references to `blocks'. Given the fact that almost everyone who does > any sort of large-scale backups has written lots of wrapper scripts > which attempt to parse the output of `dump', I think this format > change is inadvisable, and I intend to reverse it unless someone > speaks up with a good reason to keep the superfluous verbiage. > > -GAWollman > > -- > Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... > wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. > Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people > MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant >