On Jan 4, 2001, "John R. Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> OK. That means you have a "process in the middle" that saves stdin to
>> a file and only starts outputting to stdout once it gets a signal.
> We cannot assume we have file space on the client. I suspect it would
> be easier to just load up the blocks in memory, but that then implies
> a potential for a lot of memory use.
Besides, we'd have to start the backups in update mode. What if
there's so little data in the disk that it ends up updating
/etc/dumpdates before we get a chance to stop it?
--
Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com}
CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
Free Software Evangelist *Please* write to mailing lists, not to me
