From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 7 22:49:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9C0F154D2 for ; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 22:49:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mj@isy.liu.se) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAA20474; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 07:49:44 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 07:49:43 +0100 (CET) From: Micke Josefsson To: keith@mail.telestream.com Subject: RE: /dev/rsa0 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 07-Dec-99 keith@mail.telestream.com wrote: > If I opted to go ahead and use tar, would that mean I would need to format > the tapes and create a filesystem on the tape as opposed to a raw dump. > > > Keith. Nope! No filesystem is needed in any case. I've never heard of anyone formatting tapes anyway. (Well, except ZX Spectrum's Microdrives of course...). /M ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.1 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message