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Date:      Mon, 17 Jun 1996 22:42:44 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        gwk@cray.com
Cc:        gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bin/1320: dump limits blocksize to 32K
Message-ID:  <199606172042.WAA04676@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199606171323.PAA18629@racer.dkrz.de> from "Georg-W. Koltermann" at "Jun 17, 96 03:23:30 pm"

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As Georg-W. Koltermann wrote:

> E. g. how about dumping to a locally attached device with the
> intention of restoring the tape on another system?  The other system
> may very well be capable of handling blocksizes > 32.

Won't work either.  It's not restore(8) that's broken, it's physio(9).
For both, reading *and* writing.

-- 
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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