From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 15 10:19:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA23401 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 10:19:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA23390 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 10:19:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA01038; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 20:29:08 +0300 Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 20:29:07 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: Joe Greco , Darryl Okahata , jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nightmare. In-Reply-To: <3597.840123197@critter.tfs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> # mount /dev/st0 /mnt > >> # cd /mnt > >> (whirrrr chug) > >> # (cd /usr; tar cvf - .) | tar xf - > >> (whirrrr chug whirrrr chug whirrr chug for several years) > > > >Got to try out. What a pitty I have only 2GB DAT.... But I think I > >can copy many small-sized files to it, if it works, of course. > > I tried it, it doesn't. Which part of it didn't work? All or some specific? Sander > > Please fix it if you have time. It is a usefull feature, in particular > for a dat that can do moderately fast positioning. I'll try to see what I can do. The feature would actually be really usefull, even with the perhormance penalties. The 2G replaceable file partitions would come at totally killer price! And it could actually avoid having to pack away - just copy them over, if you need them again, replace the cassett in the drive copy stuff over, later copy changed stuff back. Heh... Much too good to be possible... Sander > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. > http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. > whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. > Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so. >