> >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.
Actually, yes, but I didn't word it very well above. > Dump reads the raw device and finds everything by hand. > > Restore (like tar!) just open/write/close/chown regular files. So my assumption *is* correct that it won't matter if I use dump/restore to do the job, and that the lower-layer effeciencies of dump don't effect the resulting layout done by restore. Great, thanks for the quick response! Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
