Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Aug 2000 09:40:07 +0200 | From | Abramo Bagnara <> | Subject | Re: NTFS-like streams? |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > > You know what tar(1) will do with you for that, don't you? Same ->st_ino > > with different contents... And unlike procfs, here tar is a Reasonable > > Thing(tm). > > But "tar" won't even _see_ the thing. Unless "tar" starts to know about > S_IFCOMPLEX. In which case it's a non-issue. > > Remember: unix-only programs will only see the regular data side. They > won't ever see the other resource forks at all. Ergo, they cannot break. >
No backups then? No find . | cpio -pdv /dest?
Are you sure?
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It sounds good!
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