Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 11:04:01 -0600 From: John <john@starfire.mn.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using FreeBSD to migrate Windows XP? Message-ID: <20050208110401.B14613@starfire.mn.org> In-Reply-To: <44oeev81hr.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>;11:23:12AM -0500 References: <20050208070846.A13935@starfire.mn.org> <200502081551.j18FpL012184@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <20050208101559.A14613@starfire.mn.org> <44oeev81hr.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 11:23:12AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > John <john@starfire.mn.org> writes: > > > Dump cannot work on anthing other than UFS filesystems. Dump > > actually separately interprets the filesystem structure. Consider, for > > example, that dump works perfectly well on unmounted filesystems. > > Dump is DRAMATICALLY different in its operation than tar, cpio, etc. > > Since tar and others use the filesystem code, they don't care > > what the underlying structure might be, BUT, they are also incapable > > of collecting "foreign" information like SIDs and ACLs. > > This is one of the advantages of the new "BSD tar" (which is the > standard tar on FreeBSD 5.3); it can pick up some of the extended > attributes. True, but I think it is still a LONG WAYS from being able to back up and restore an NT Filesystem. We don't really write to NT filesystems at all, in the general case. -- John Lind john@starfire.MN.ORG
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