Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 15:49:37 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: gwk@cray.com, j@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org, gpalmer@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/1320: dump limits blocksize to 32K Message-ID: <199606180549.PAA10352@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> 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. The same system is actually capable of handling blocksizes up to 64K. dump(8) is not the place to avoid the brokenness of physio(). Bruce
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