Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 13:53:09 -0700 From: Pat Lashley <patl@volant.org> To: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>, Dan Strick <strick@covad.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copying an entire tree Message-ID: <48670000.1061585589@mccaffrey.phoenix.volant.org> In-Reply-To: <200308222017.07099.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> References: <200308212305.h7LN5wNa000496@ice.nodomain> <200308222017.07099.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
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--On Friday, August 22, 2003 20:17:07 +0930 Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> wrote: > Dump/restore is also the only technique I've found to retain the holes in > holey files. cpio can handle sparse files. I think that was the reason I changed from a tar/tar pipe to a find/cpio pipe as my standard method many years ago. (It's been long enough that I don't remember for certain.) Now, I'll probably use cpdup; since it handles the flags properly. Although, now that you mention it, the docs don't say anything about sparse files; so I may have to be careful which I choose for a given hierarchy... or at least find a test case... -Pat
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