Re: [SLUG] NTFS vs EXT3

[amos]

Crossfire wrote:
Unfortunately, a fsck is not the only tool required in data backup and
recovery - the big issue with reiser for serious deployment has been
its lack of dump/restore -- something which both ext2 and xfs have.
C.
 

Why is dump/restore so critical for recovery? What's wrong with tar/cpio 
or other
archiving programs? Is it because they don't keep all the possible 
information about
the files?

I remember back in the 4.2BSD days dump/restore was critical because 
they were
significantly faster than tar because they didn't go through the 
kernel's namei() on
every file, but things have changed since then haven't they?

--Amos
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