Re: compression in dump(8)

[Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 2 May 2016, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> It does; the dump format puts the directory info first so that it can 
> restore the stuff you selected in a single pass (it does not need to 
> seek backwards).

Gotcha. Sorry for piping up about something that already works then! I'll 
be sure to try it next time I need to. 

> Of course if you select some, restore, try to select some more, 
> restore... It will not work since it will need to seek backwards then. 

Understood. That makes good sense. 

> Remember all this stuff was designed with tapes in mind, not random 
> access devices.

Roger that. 


-Swift