Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 09:05:11 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: gwk@cray.com, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org, gpalmer@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/1320: dump limits blocksize to 32K Message-ID: <199606180705.JAA08047@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199606180549.PAA10352@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Jun 18, 96 03:49:37 pm"
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As Bruce Evans wrote: > >Won't work either. It's not restore(8) that's broken, it's physio(9). > >For both, reading *and* writing. > > The same system is actually capable of handling blocksizes up to 64K. The correct limit is 64 KB. > dump(8) is not the place to avoid the brokenness of physio(). Yep, i agree that it should only issue a warning. -- 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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