Re: Interesting speed benchmarks

On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 09:43:52AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
Note that dump/restore is the only tool that can correctly reproduce
sparse files. tar, cpio and pax also have filename and file size
restrictions. I don't think that cpio or pax support ACLs or file
flags.

I thought 'star' handled sparse files and all the extra magic? Not
that this is germaine to the topic at hand...

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