Date: 08 Feb 2005 11:23:12 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: John <john@starfire.mn.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using FreeBSD to migrate Windows XP? Message-ID: <44oeev81hr.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20050208101559.A14613@starfire.mn.org> References: <20050208070846.A13935@starfire.mn.org> <200502081551.j18FpL012184@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <20050208101559.A14613@starfire.mn.org>
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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.
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