"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...

Perry