John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > Pesonally, I would never use cpio for anything. But that is me, and my > almost total lack of understandinf of cpio.
I use cpio sometimes because it can backup device nodes as well as links both hard and soft and it always puts things back exactly as they were archived. I don't think tar will do that. I use cpio to archive whole Linux installs so I can un-cpio them into a logical volume for Xen, for example. -- Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
