In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nate Williams writes : >After Kris's recent report of 'massive speedups' using dirpref, I've >been toying with the idea of backing up my box, and then restoring them. > >However, backup/restore are so much faster than doing a tar/untar. > >If I do a backup of my FS, wipe the disk, will the 'restore' cause the >same (ineffecient) directory layout to appear on disk? > >I wouldn't think so since the directory layout is controlled by the >kernel, but I do know that dump/restore are much lower-layer tools than >tar, so they may possibly have layout information embedded in them. > >Is my assumption correct?
no. Dump reads the raw device and finds everything by hand. Restore (like tar!) just open/write/close/chown regular files. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
