Re: [Dump-users] Listing the content of a dump file without writing any data?

[Stelian P. <st...@po...>]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 06:49:06AM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> --On Friday, January 04, 2008 3:12 PM +0100 Stelian Pop 
> <st...@po...> wrote:
> 
> > In order to print such information the restore code should scan the entire
> > dump just like when it does a 'restore -C' for example, and instead of
> > comparing the file just print out the information. It shouldn't be very
> > hard to implement if you feel like doing it :)
> 
> Ideally it would list everything in the inode.

Yup.

> 
> This is one of those use cases where being able to mount the dump like an 
> ISO9660 filesystem would be handy. ;)

I'm not sure the sequential nature of a dump is compatible with some
sort of loop mount... Especially if the dump is located on a real tape :)

Stelian.
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