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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
cc: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm), hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: several diffs for dump(8) to display write throughput and such...c 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 00:32:33 -0800
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>As Andreas Klemm wrote:
>> 
>> > > >>DUMP: DUMP: finished in 1451 seconds, throughput 474 KBytes/sec
>> > 
>> > Neat!  I like it.  However, we're already in feature freeze for 2.1 so
>> > this would definitely be -current fodder only, I'm afraid!
>> 
>> Hi Jordan, well, that's fine. So you take the part to fiddle it in
>> into current, please ?!
>
>I've already wrote this to Andreas in private mail:
>
>o  The patch could cause a division by 0 under rare circumstances, it
>   divides by a time difference without first checking for 0.  The
>   probably best way is to add a `1' there.  It won't change the result
>   very significantly for a long-term tape backup, but avoids the
>   problem.

   It should check for zero.

-DG