Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 11:05:00 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: dump/restore and DIRPREF Message-ID: <15289.62396.178582.398770@nomad.yogotech.com>
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After Kris's recent report of 'massive speedups' using dirpref, I've been toying with the idea of backing up my box, and then restoring them. However, backup/restore are so much faster than doing a tar/untar. If I do a backup of my FS, wipe the disk, will the 'restore' cause the same (ineffecient) directory layout to appear on disk? I wouldn't think so since the directory layout is controlled by the kernel, but I do know that dump/restore are much lower-layer tools than tar, so they may possibly have layout information embedded in them. Is my assumption correct? Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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