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

[Kenneth P. <sh...@se...>]

On Saturday, January 05, 2008 3:33 PM +0100 Stelian Pop 
<st...@po...> wrote:

> It's composed of a map of inodes on the tape, then a sequential stream
> of all the directories on the tape, then a sequential stream of all the
> other type of files on the tape.

So given a dump file on disk, the inode map, and a fast seek mechanism (ie. 
a QFA file), one should be able to quickly navigate the metadata.