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In a message dated: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:46:19 EDT Robert Casey said: >Could anyone tell me if dump will work on ext3 file systems? From what I >read it looks like it won't so I guess tar is what I should use. Can anyone >shed some light? Well, dump is, traditionally, very tied to the file system structure. So, normally, I'd guess that dump for one fs wouldn't work on another. However, my understanding of ext3 is that really, it's just ext2 with hooks added to allow for journaling. You can, in fact, mount an ext3 fs as an ext2 file system. Therefore, I would suspect that you could use ext2's dump on it. You might not get the journal data though. Keep in mind though, there's a general trend in the Linux world to move away from dump towards tar. At this point in time, there's very little that dump can do that tar can't (long pathname bug aside). There are reasons to not use tar (like modification of file access times) but most sites aren't usually concerned about those types of things. (not to say yours or anyone elses isn't). If you can get away with it, I'd use tar not dump. If you really want to use dump, I'd recommend using a different file system :) I *really* like XFS from SGI, and it comes with xfsprogs like dump and restore. I think reiserfs and jfs do as well. HTH, - -- Seeya, Paul -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 (debian 2.2-1) iD8DBQE8zq/HuweSOVPxKO4RAp7PAKDP904jgdP9Uex5bX0Enpm4JKq6PQCfeJZd dD6ilmLdtOFWp0lY5NQwuxI= =lFQf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
