On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:23 AM, dexen deVries <dexen.devr...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 November 2010 18:14:35 Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: > > (...) > > I'd be very careful with vac -m and -a on Unix; both have been at the > > root of considerable data-loss on a unix venti for me. I'd recommend > > vac-ing tarballs, rather than using vac's on unix trees directly. But > > your mileage may vary... > > > could you please elaborate a bit about that data loss? > traversing symlinks breaks? some files not getting read by vac at all? > > (I'm interested in using p9p vac+venti in similar manner, but on Linux w/ > GNU > stuff) > > -- > dexen deVries > I could imagine vac/unvac not dealing with resource forks or POSIX extended attributes and such properly, as well as potentially having difficulty with symlinks, but having dealt with stuff like that in "xar", I don't think it's too difficult to address. I may need to read up on venti and see what sorts of data types it supports. Might be time to add some extensions? Dave > > > ``One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.'' > >
