On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 12:29:18PM -0700, John Polstra wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Anyone else think this patch from NetBSD is worthwhile?
>
> Yes yes yes yes yes! That's 5 votes in favor of it already. :-)
:-)
> > Should I also extend it to support bzip2'ed dumps now that that's in
> > the base system, or would that be overkill?
>
> I'm more or less neutral on that, but since the files are so big I
> bet bzip2 would be almost too slow to bear at reboot time.
Yes. Maybe I'll do some testing to see how much space it saves -- it
might be useful as a non-default option for people who are low on disk
space.
Kris
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