>There's no theoretical reason why the formats used by dump and >restore shouldn't be forward and backward compatible, allowing >an older restore (to an older filesystem type) to pick out the >parts of the dump which make sense to it while ignoring parts >which it doesn't understand. > >But they aren't, so it can't, so you're out of luck.
This is a pretty interesting issue that I didn't realize. I've regularly restored dumps from a Solaris 8 machine to my FreeBSD 4.x machines. (We had data volumes on some old Solaris machines that I replaced with FreeBSD.) I guess FreeBSD and Solaris volumes are similar enough that the restore just worked. Jaime Bozza _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
