Am 04.01.2011 16:33, schrieb Dominic Raferd: > So I guess it is forward-compatible, but not backward-compatible? > Existing repositories can be read fine with rdiff-backup patched for > sparse file support, but repositories created with sparse file support > cannot be read by unpatched rdiff-backup.
Looking at the patch, it only changes the way blocks of zeroes are written to disk - they are "written" as holes in the files instead. As sparse file are completely transparent to user-space so there should be no compatability issues whatsoever! Jakob _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
