Messages in this thread | | | From | Christian Mayrhuber <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 | Date | Fri, 27 Aug 2004 22:56:07 +0200 |
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On Friday 27 August 2004 16:12, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Because not everybody uses tar. Quite a few people use a > network backup system, while others use duplicity, RPM uses > cpio internally and big companies tend to use proprietary > network backup suites. Big backup systems support scripts that can be run prior to backup and post restore. You aready have to use star to do a metadata backup the acl's/ea into some tgz, which can be unpacked after restore.
> Breaking people's setup is something to worry about. Yeah, maybe. But as usual on UN*X like systems most admins are able to come up with a quick shell/perl script to solve their particular problem.
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