Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 08:22:32 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump/restore with compression Message-ID: <19970618082232.IY44909@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <8425.866584356@nemeton.com.au>; from Giles Lean on Jun 18, 1997 07:52:36 %2B1000 References: <19970615160250.HK59536@uriah.heep.sax.de> <8425.866584356@nemeton.com.au>
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As Giles Lean wrote: > > What i didn't like is that they broke compatibility. vdump's output > > is incompatible with dump's. > I've never seen different OSes with compatible dump formats. Did you try it? I have no problems reading an AIX 3.2.5 dump tape on FreeBSD (for an example of something i've tried myself). AIX doesn't even have UFS, and it has a different byte-order. Also, DEC UNIX already offers (BSD) dump for their UFS, so having vdump more incompatible than necessary so both formats cannot be interchanged looks silly. -- 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. ;-)
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