On Thursday 02 December 2004 05:55, Nick Barnes wrote: > 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.
There may be security reasons, though. If you've locked down a filesystem through the extensive use of ACLs, then you wouldn't want to dump/restore it to another system that doesn't support those ACLs and expect your security framework to still be intact - at least not without *lots* of warnings. -- Kirk Strauser
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