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From: "Ian! D. Allen [CGL]" <idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Subject: More undocumented performance issues with dump
Message-ID: <1990Jun8.210831.25450@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Sender: idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ian! D. Allen [CGL])
Organization: Computer Graphics Laboratory, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 90 21:08:31 GMT
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Dump to stdout (a tape):

    # time dump 0bf 32k - / >/dev/nrmt0h
      DUMP: 11318272 bytes were dumped to Standard Output
      DUMP: Dump is done
    0% real=15:34 usr=0.3 sys=1.6 rd=0 wr=4 mem=92 pg=2 rec=18 sw=0 sig=0 cs=2058

Dump to the same tape directly:

    # time dump 0bf 32k /dev/nrmt0h /
      DUMP: 345 tape blocks were dumped on 1 tape(s)
      DUMP: Dump is done
    0% real=7:16 usr=0.4 sys=1.6 rd=0 wr=4 mem=94 pg=2 rec=18 sw=0 sig=0 cs=2019

I guess there's something dump can figure out from the file name that
it can't figure out with fstat() on the open device.  Too bad.
Better not have any non-standard names for your tapes, I guess.
-- 
-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu
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