From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 28 11:46:08 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA28993 for current-outgoing; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 11:46:08 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA28983 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 11:46:01 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA04068; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 14:46:00 -0500 Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 14:46:00 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" Message-Id: <9511281946.AA04068@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Recent changes to `dump' Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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