From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Jun 17 14:51:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA02527 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 14:51:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA02490 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 14:51:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA03436; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 23:50:43 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA12639; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 23:50:43 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id WAA04676; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 22:42:45 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199606172042.WAA04676@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: bin/1320: dump limits blocksize to 32K To: gwk@cray.com Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 22:42:44 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199606171323.PAA18629@racer.dkrz.de> from "Georg-W. Koltermann" at "Jun 17, 96 03:23:30 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)