Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Rik van Riel
2004-08-28T02:02:03Z

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Spam wrote:

> > Whereas if you follow the OS's advice, and skip virtual files, then
> > backup and restore will recreate the filesystem, which is what you want.
>
> > _That's_ storing everything. It's what you want from a backup.
>
> It would be storing everything but the virtual files.

Thing is, there is no way to distinguish between what are
virtual files and what are actual streams hidden inside a
file. You don't know what should and shouldn't be backed
up...

Hans says there must be a way, somehow, but I haven't seen
him tell this mailing list what exactly it is ;)

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