Revised dump-restore patches

[David Bremner]

On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:51:56 -0800, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins at finestructure.net> wrote:

> It seems to me that as long as restore can detect what format the dump
> file is in, it shouldn't matter what the default dump format is, right?
> If someone makes a new dump in the new format, they'll presumably also
> be restoring with the new code that supports that format as well.  I'm
> having a hard time imagining a situation where moving to a new
> fully-supported default dump format would break anything.

Well, nmbug would break, to take a random example ;). I expect other
people parse the dump output for their own neferious purposes.

d