On Wednesday 17 November 2010 18:14:35 Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: > (...) > I'd be very careful with vac -m and -a on Unix; both have been at the > root of considerable data-loss on a unix venti for me. I'd recommend > vac-ing tarballs, rather than using vac's on unix trees directly. But > your mileage may vary...
could you please elaborate a bit about that data loss? traversing symlinks breaks? some files not getting read by vac at all? (I'm interested in using p9p vac+venti in similar manner, but on Linux w/ GNU stuff) -- dexen deVries ``One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.''
