>From: Karl-Heinz Herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On 19-Sep-00 Alex Shnitman wrote:
>> I don't know about fat32, but for ext2 you should probably use "dump"
>> and "restore" [..]
>> but they store & restore a very exact image of the filesystem,
>> down to the inode numbers.
>So that's what's dump for -- in difference to tar and co. Good top know.
I see no reason for dump anymore. Dump depends on the FS so it is not portable.
The problems backuing up file hidden by mount operations, that tar has
may be solved by some new options to the loopback FS and if the
GET ALLOC info ioctl will work again, star is even faster with dumping
sparse files than dump. ... and id reproduces holes correctly.
J�rg
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