On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 11:23:12AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > 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.
True, but I think it is still a LONG WAYS from being able to back up and restore an NT Filesystem. We don't really write to NT filesystems at all, in the general case. -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
