On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Ian FREISLICH wrote: > SanD wrote: >> Ian wrote: >>> How does dump handle sparse files? >> Dump handles fine sparse files. > > Maybe I should have asked how does dump figure out that the files > are sparse and if it's any more intelligent than a 2 pass read (I > have no idea why 2 passes are required) or just blindly turning > successive zeros into a seek offset, is there anything preventing > BSD tar from doing the same? Dump knows about the filesystem format; it talks that directly to the device. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Political talk? / What is said can be unsaid / with good old BS -- ASCII haikuReceived on Thu Jul 22 2004 - 12:46:31 UTC
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