--On Saturday, July 02, 2005 4:37 PM -0500 Les Mikesell
<lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think I remember seeing Linus say that the raw disk as seen by dump
can be out of sync with the filesystem cache as seen by things reading
and writing files. Is that still true?
Here's the full scoop:
<http://dump.sourceforge.net/isdumpdeprecated.html>
Star is supposed to do extended attributes, I don't thing gnutar does.
However, you can extract files from tar/cpio archives onto just about
any operating system and filesystem. With dump you can only put back
the same filesystem type you dumped.
restore, the counterpart to dump, only uses normal filesystem API's, not
raw device I/O, so it can restore to any filesystem. Some information may
be lost if the target filesystem doesn't support all the features of the
dumped ext3 system, but that's not the fault of dump/restore nor ext3.
