Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:48:47 -0600 From: Bill Hamilton <billh@finsco.com> To: Mr M P Searle <csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk> Cc: Joe Gleason <clash@tasam.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Large block size for very large files Message-ID: <36A4D38F.B1043BE1@finsco.com> References: <199901191804.SAA01711@lupin.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
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Mr M P Searle wrote: > > > I have a backup drive (8gb) and I tar the rest of my system onto that > > drive, so the only thing sitting on the backup drive is my 3-4gb tar file. > > > > Would it be wise for me to increse my block size so that this filesystem > > would have less overhead that I don't need? > > > > If you're not putting anything else on that partition, you could tar > directly to the device without having any overhead from a filesystem. > I was thinking of doing what he is doing with a partition on a new 9G scsi. Does your answer mean to treat the device as "raw"? I've never tried this, so bear with me, but do you need to modify fstab for this purpose, or does every slice just always have an r* equivalent? Are there any gottchas if you need to restore all/partial from it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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