Re: Ext2fs and hashed table.

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
15 Jun 1997 07:51:31 GMT

Followup to: <m2afkt4o28.fsf@forest.nuthouse.au>
By author: Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Harald Koenig <koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
>
> > I'd say "tries to handle"... gnu-tar can't distinguish between
> allocated blocks all zero > and sparse holes. in case where it's
> important that some areas are really allocated, > gnu-tar may break
> your files. might not be a common problem but tar just can't > deal
> with sparse files perfectly; dump/restore can...
>

Why would that matter?

I would argue that dump can't deal with *ANY* file perfectly, since it
(in the typical configuration) is committing the utter no-no of
reading a non-quiescent r/w mounted filesystem from the raw block
device.

-hpa

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