19 May
2005
19 May
'05
3:56 p.m.
From: "John Foust" <jfoust at
threedee.com>
There's plenty of file system meta-data out there to confound
this process. Blindly archiving and un-archiving will destroy
data that's not inside the file. There's a lot to be said for
archiving images of entire filesystems. What, timestamps
aren't important? Creation dates as well as last-modified dates?
Archive bits? At least 'tar' preserves Unix's groups and
permissions to a reasonable degree.
Hi
In one file system I'm looking at, the directory contains
the information as to what type of file it is ( not in the
name of the file either ). Things like system only executable
and word processor format are not encoded in the file name
or the file it self on the one I'm looking at.
Also, missing from the file are things like start address
and load address.
Dwight