speed of dump

[Chris Torek]

(Don Speck should really answer this one...)

In article <13622 at sequent.UUCP> roc at sequent.UUCP (Ron Christian) writes:
>Is 4.3 BSD dump any faster than 4.2 BSD dump in driving the tape drive?

Yes.

>Are there faster possibilities that retain the functionality of dump?

Yes.  Most of them involve kernel hacks.  One that does not:  If the
disks are sufficiently full, and you have sufficient real memory (say
32+ MB), you could make a version of dump that reads entire cylinder
groups into memory.  If your transfer rate is substantially higher than
your seek time%, this will help for all but the largest files on most
Unix machines.  (If the disks are not very full, this will slow things
down instead.)

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