On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 04:20:09PM +0000, David Holland wrote: > I have been meaning sometime to hack dump to allow using dumpdates > with subtree or partial-volume dumps, which requires something like > this as a prereq, so yes please.
This is what I am doing: I split the volume root directories using a hash and dump them independently. That way the dumps do not last forever to complete, and theire size are more reasonable to handle. There is one drawback: when given a list of directories, dump must run as root. Now if that makes consensus, I would be eager to add the hash split logic inside dump so that one can request a partial volume dump of for example root directories whose name or inode hash starts by a given value. -- Emmanuel Dreyfus m...@netbsd.org
