Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 22:16:31 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, pechter@stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@wcarchive.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Why IDE is bad Message-ID: <199503231216.WAA13465@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>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
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