John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dump cannot work on anthing other than UFS filesystems. Dump > actually separately interprets the filesystem structure. Consider, for > example, that dump works perfectly well on unmounted filesystems. > Dump is DRAMATICALLY different in its operation than tar, cpio, etc. > Since tar and others use the filesystem code, they don't care > what the underlying structure might be, BUT, they are also incapable > of collecting "foreign" information like SIDs and ACLs.
This is one of the advantages of the new "BSD tar" (which is the standard tar on FreeBSD 5.3); it can pick up some of the extended attributes. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
