From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 3 00:50:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA15954 for current-outgoing; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 00:50:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA15949 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 00:50:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA24146 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 09:50:49 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id JAA12621; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 09:34:47 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 09:34:47 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: Good name for a dump(8) option? References: <199702030304.UAA19877@rocky.mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199702030304.UAA19877@rocky.mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Feb 2, 1997 20:04:37 -0700 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Nate Williams wrote: > > i've implemented an option to dump(8) to bypass all tape length > > considerations, and dump straight to the end-of-tape indication, as it > > is probably most appropriate for all today's tape drives (due to > > compression and/or multiple backups per volume). > > Oooh, I *like* it. Now, if you can only send the code to Sun and have > them use it as well. :) :) The code is already in there, it's only that i'm enforcing to use it. If you call the old dump(8) with a tape length that is way too large, it will do exactly the same (except of the bogus ``will be on 0.01 tapes'' message i'm avoiding). -- 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. ;-)