Disk partition sizes on big disks.
Spencer W. Thomas
thomas at utah-gr.UUCP
Mon Nov 14 21:48:40 AEST 1983
You didn't mention which Unix version you are running. I know that on
4.1Bsd the restor program spent upwards of 50% of its time just clearing
out (and copying?) buffers. Write, or steal, a buffer clear/copy
routine in assembler, and you'll probably see much better improvement.
Our full saves are up to 26 tapes now! (We've got a 6250bpi tape drive
on order, and will soon switch to 4.2, which should help too.)
=Spencer
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