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
