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Date:      Wed, 18 Dec 1996 23:31:05 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD SCSI list)
Cc:        sadmin@roundtable.cif.rochester.edu
Subject:   Re: good way to add disks?
Message-ID:  <199612182231.XAA24183@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199612181628.QAA14500@deacon.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> from Richard Tobin at "Dec 18, 96 04:28:32 pm"

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As Richard Tobin wrote:

> You should be able to do a dump onto the raw disk device, without even
> making a file system on it.

Not if you think of `dump' in terms of dump(8)/restore(8).  Only if
you think of `dump' in terms of dd(1) -- but who would be willing to
do this these days?

-- 
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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