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Date:      Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:54:37 -0500
From:      Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Interesting speed benchmarks
Message-ID:  <20070127165437.GB41546@numachi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070126224352.GD927@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
References:  <17850.11127.944124.276290@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <200701261733.l0QHXdY1078259@lurza.secnetix.de> <20070126224352.GD927@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>

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On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 09:43:52AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> Note that dump/restore is the only tool that can correctly reproduce
> sparse files.  tar, cpio and pax also have filename and file size
> restrictions.  I don't think that cpio or pax support ACLs or file
> flags.

I thought 'star' handled sparse files and all the extra magic?  Not
that this is germaine to the topic at hand...

> -- 
> Peter Jeremy

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