> Trust me, the HFS guys have succeded in getting the filesystem
> tar-able and untarable on their filesystem. You really can copy a
> filesystem around that way.
That isnt all
> You can also untar it onto ext2fs, tar it again, and untar it on HFS
> and get a similar filestructure back as you started out with. Of
> course, you can break things while they are on ext2. But you can
> similarly break things while they are on HFS.
And critically - you can sanely serve files using the same code without
knowing if they are on ext2 and faked or HFS and real resource forks. Thats
a property a new setup should keep
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