In some mail I received from Perry E. Metzger, sie wrote
> 
> 
> "Chris G. Demetriou" writes:
> > > I feel a restore_msdos is necessary but what do others think ?  (That
> > > is remember there could be non-FAT16 information to restore, long file
> > > names, etc (which NetBSD is meant to support but I haven't yet checked that
> > > out).
> > > 
> > 
> > I'd agree, but because 'dump' and 'restore' were meant to be
> > FFS-specific, and have in the past been arbitrarily changed to match
> > FFS formats.
> > 
> > Given that the various FAT formats aren't really related, it seems
> > like a bad idea to try to wedge them into normal 'restore' (or 'dump,'
> > for that matter).
> 
> I wonder if gtar's facilities for doing incremental dumps aren't more
> suitable to dumping FAT file systems than dump is...

I'm deliberately avoiding tar/cpio for the following reasons:
* each writes individual files to tape (less efficient on some tape media,
  not to mention slower)
* neither provides interactive restoration (restore if)

Darren