From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 23 04:22:27 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA09285 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 04:22:27 -0800 Received: from wcarchive.cdrom.com (wcarchive.cdrom.com [192.216.191.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA09279 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 04:22:27 -0800 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by wcarchive.cdrom.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA16932 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 04:21:42 -0800 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id WAA13465; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 22:16:31 +1000 Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 22:16:31 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199503231216.WAA13465@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, pechter@stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: Why IDE is bad Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@wcarchive.cdrom.com Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >One question is -- should we just port ext2fs? (There's already a lot of >people experimenting with both FreeBSD and Linux. There's already a >read-only port of FFS to Linux. I think the author is porting it. >One drawback is the need to make ALL the BSD utilities (dump, restore, etc.) >play nice with ext2fs. (One reason I went to BSD from Linux was the lack >of dump/restore). >Cpio and tar do not make a backup scheme. I use tar. I don't want to use dump because it only runs under one O/S that I have. Bruce