Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Christian Mayrhuber
2004-08-27T20:56:07Z

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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lg, Chris