Hard Drive Reshuffle

[Steven Elling]

On Friday 18 April 2003 13:09, Gerald Combs wrote:
> >           Use tar instead.
>
> Are you sure?  Pretend you're on a system that doesn't have GNU tar.
> Now pretend you want to back up a file system with really long paths, lots
> of files with holes in them, and a batch of named pipes.  Traditional tar
> implementations stink for all of these.

What I meant to say was that if you are trying to backup a reiser file system 
use tar instead.  Unless, there is something that will work better for 
backing up reiserfs provided it isn't a commercial product.