I mean, Warner- you're right, but, well, I've been using tar to copy systems
for the last 5 years for *BSD, and, well, it really works best for me.
On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote:
>
> Only if you want to be here until next tuesday. Solaris ufsdump runs 8 times
> as fast.
>
> You're right - tar doesn't handle files with holes. Not too many of those
> around.
>
> /dev you can and should always remake. Typically it's only sa0 out of the
> generic set that tar skips.
>
> On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Warner Losh wrote:
>
> > In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107071842230.58871-100000@beppo> Matthew Jacob writes:
> > : tar cfl - . | (cd /altroot/<local_fs> && tar xpf -)
> >
> > Don't use tar. It loses devices, can't handle holey files well and a
> > number of other minor clitches. Use dump instead.
> >
> > Warner
> >
>
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