On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, Steven Elling wrote:

> 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.

Maybe we need another bullet in the "Tar" section:

    - GNU tar and "star" are good.  Most others are suspect.

:)