From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 29 14:11: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp013.mail.yahoo.com (smtp013.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 40CE037B416 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:10:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from mkc-65-30-96-67.kc.rr.com (HELO yahoo.com) (65.30.96.67) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 Nov 2001 21:50:22 -0000 Message-ID: <3C06AD98.3070605@yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 15:50:16 -0600 From: Jim Bryant Reply-To: kc5vdj@yahoo.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: fergus Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tar and nodump flag References: <15363.38257.236253.85237@hyde.lpds.sublink.org> <20011127144343.W421-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de> <9u5ied$1fjf$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <20011129161126.C1163@dedog.argus-systems.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG fergus wrote: >>>- It doesn't support incremental backups. That isn't a problem in >> itself, but it's a feature our GNU tar currently has and people >> probably don't want to lose. I dunno... The entire incremental thing in tar is dependant on NOT using compression, which IMHO makes it pretty useless, especially if you prefer the much tighter software compression you get from gzip. jim -- ET has one helluva sense of humor! He's always anal-probing right-wing schizos! ----------------------------------------------------- POWER TO THE PEOPLE! ----------------------------------------------------- "Religious fundamentalism is the biggest threat to international security that exists today." United Nations Secretary General B.B.Ghali, 1995 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message