On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 02:00:49AM -0500, David Masover wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 01:27:25 CDT, David Masover said: > > [...] > > >>Speaking of backup, that's another nice place for a plugin. Imagine a > >>dump that didn't have to be of the entire FS, but rather an arbitrary > >>tree... That might be a nice new archive format. I know Apple already > >>uses something like this for their dmg packages. > > > > > > Hmm.. you mean like 'tar' or 'cpio' or 'pax' or 'rsync'? :) > > No, a dmg is an OS X program installer. It appears to be a disk image > of sorts. So this is the backup idea in reverse.
Yeah, disk images are really a new invention... It's not like creating an arbitrarily large solid file and then doing mkfs on it would accomplish the same thing =) > They even "optimize" (repack? defrag?) the hard drive after each update. That's what they call the updating of the prelinking information, AFAIK. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Full colour fire (/
