Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Rik van Riel
2004-08-26T18:28:56Z

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> Because without kernel support there is no way someone can
> publish a new metadata type and have it automatically supported
> by all application data files (ie. most apps ignore it, and only
> apps that are aware of it can see it).

So your backup software ignores it, and after a restore you've
lost your new metadata ?

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