From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Jun 18 00:49:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA07461 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 00:49:21 -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 AAA07444 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 00:49:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA18409; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 09:20:52 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA18858; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 09:20:47 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id JAA08047; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 09:05:11 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199606180705.JAA08047@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: bin/1320: dump limits blocksize to 32K To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 09:05:11 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: gwk@cray.com, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org, gpalmer@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199606180549.PAA10352@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Jun 18, 96 03:49:37 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 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. ;-)