[TUHS] dump(8) compatibility

[Jason Stevens]

reminds me of the tar changes with the advent of gnutar... boy have I had a
lot of fun transporting files to find out when extracting it creates the
directories as files.....


On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> Tar and cpio at least have a standard, well understood format. Dump was
> always only defined by the source.
>
> Warner
>
>
>
> On Feb 14, 2010, at 7:27 PM, Larry McVoy <lm at bitmover.com> wrote:
>
>  It used to be the case that dump was completely interchangeable
>>> between the different BSDs, but software drift has rendered that not
>>> the case anymore.
>>>
>>
>> Which is why we (BitKeeper guys) don't even trust cpio/tar/etc.  Wrote our
>> own, works everywhere including windows.
>> --
>> ---
>> Larry McVoy                lm at bitmover.com
>> http://www.bitkeeper.com
>>
>>
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