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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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