Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's a matter of opinion (and religion to some people, it seems).  tar

[ Linux specific ]

Linus Torvalds, in linux-kernel:
said:
   Note that dump simply won't work reliably at all even in 2.4.x: the buffer 
   cache and the page cache (where all the actual data is) are not 
   coherent. This is only going to get even worse in 2.5.x, when the 
   directories are moved into the page cache as well. 

   [ ... ]

   Dump was a stupid program in the first place. Leave it behind.

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