dump/restore and DIRPREF

2001-10-02 Thread Nate Williams
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

Re: dump/restore and DIRPREF

2001-10-02 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 11:05:00AM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: 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

Re: dump/restore and DIRPREF

2001-10-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nate Williams writes : 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

Re: dump/restore and DIRPREF

2001-10-02 Thread Nate Williams
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

Re: dump/restore and DIRPREF

2001-10-02 Thread Matt Dillon
I recommend using cpdup ( /usr/ports/sysutils/cpdup ), mainly because you can ^C it and restart it at any time so it's a lot easier to play around with your directory dup'ing. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with