[H-GEN] Hardware Upgrade

[Greg Black]

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Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:

| One other note about GNU tar:  the last time I used it to transfer a
| (large) filesystem, I realized only after restarting it two or three
| times that the software does not modify permissions at the destination
| until *after* the transfer of files is complete.

This is not unique to GNU tar -- it's common practice and is
seen in programs like restore as well.

| > I again reiterate my preference for dump/restore.  Unfortunetaly reiserfs
| > doesn't support any utilities like dump/restore but this is unlikely to
| > effect you :)
| 
| This is a major deficiency, and yet another reason I will not use
| reiserfs.

The general anti-dump stance of Linus and the frequent stories
about flaky behaviour under Linux is the main serious reason why
I still don't actually use Linux.  The truth is that dump is the
perfect tool for backups and I just won't use any system that
does not provide a proper working dump/restore.

Greg

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