On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, at 10:52am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ... [XFS] comes with xfsprogs like dump and restore.  I think reiserfs and
> jfs do as well.

  ReiserFS does not have a "dump" program, nor are there any plans to
implement one.  The Reiser team's stance is, "Why should every filesystem
implement their own backup/restore utility, when generic ones already
exists?"  I generally agree with that.

  Of course, since ReiserFS is Open Source, some third-party could implement
dump for ReiserFS independently, but I see that as fairly unlikely.

  Personally, I think effort spent writing a dump for ReiserFS would be
better spent fixing GNU tar to span long file names across tapes.  ;-)

-- 
Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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