>But it just made me think of another scenario.  Suppose I had a file backed
>up from a FAT filesystem on windows.  If I had a FAT partition mounted on a
>UNIX machine then could I restore that file?

FAT chance!  (Sorry, couldn't resist.)  I suspect that the clients are
programmed for a limited repertoire of file systems, customary on each
platform (as for example an earlier posting from the Linux README file).

  Richard Sims, BU

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