On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 01:56:35PM -0800, Darren Dunham wrote:
> > I can't remember offhand whether networker uses directory order (the 
> > "unsorted" list), or inode order like with the old BSD dump/restore 
> > system. In either case, over the long run it is a fairly random order.
> 
> It's definitely not inode order.  That's only useful for something
> that's reading the raw device.  As a directory traverser (a la tar),
> it's almost certainly going in directory order.

A caveat I've seen: Not all permissions/metadata are necessarily set
when the files are restored...  In some cases, that comes later or as
the final step in the restore.  Just because the file is there doesn't
necessarily mean Networker is done with it until the restore finishes.

Dave

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