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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Help Me #1
Message-ID: <75@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 16-Nov-85 16:02:53 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 16 16:02:53 1985
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In article <2720@brl-tgr.ARPA> cottrell@NBS-VMS.ARPA (COTTRELL, JAMES) writes:
>Dump/Restore wants you to mount the last tape first when restoring
>selective files. Supposedly it's faster. Why?

I've tried it both ways, under BSD4.X.  When I mounted the first
tape, it dumbly went through the whole tape set, searching for the
inodes.  When I mounted the last tape, it stopped, thought a moment,
and then asked me to put on the right tape!

_I_ don't know why!
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	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}