On Wednesday 06 December 2006 19:35, Carlos E. R. wrote: > ... > > > But the tradeoff with per-file compression is that you typically > > get rather poor compression for archives that contain many small > > files. > > Yes, the compression ratio is a bit worse, but that's something I > will happily sacrifice for safety where backups are concerned.
But what is this "safety" we're talking about? Usually if a file is corrupted, it's massively corrupted and if it's intact, then it's intact. It's a specious safety you get with the CPIO approach. Either you back-ups are intact or they're not. > I have some backups of an entire HD done using nearly a hundred > floppies - you can imagine when - and the whole backup is still > fully retrievable, although some floppies have errors. Yes. Thank god we're now far beyond the floppy era. There is nothing that can meaningfully be done with a diskette as far as archiving or back-ups are concerned. And any "sneaker-net" style application is far better handled with a USB flash drive. > ... > > > I wish I could make "info" go away. I hate it. In addition to the > > atrocious tools used to access it, > > Try "pinfo" instead. It doesn't make the contents better, of course, > just easier to navigate ;-) Spoken like a true advocate of quasi-GUIs like Midnight Commander. Yuck. Gross. Eesh. No thank you. It's a bad and wholly unnecessary model. Konqueror's "info:" scheme presents them fine, but they're awful in their essence. RRS --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
