Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 27 Apr 2001 19:04:27 +0200 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption. |
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Dump was a stupid program in the first place. Leave it behind.
Not quite Linus - dump/restore are nice tools to create for example automatic over network installation servers, i.e. efficient system images or such. tar/cpio and friends don't deal properly with
a. holes inside of files. b. hardlinks between files.
Really they are not useless. However I wouldn't recommend them for backup practicies as well.
Please see for example:
http://www.systime-solutions.de/index.php?topic=produkte&subtopic=setupserver
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