-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2008-07-22 at 18:37 -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
Backups on Win into a dump or tar format would be nice -- but with tar, for example, I don't think it would restore all the XP ACL's and modes -- not to mention NTFS's alternate data streams.
I think it is better in that respect to use a windows compression program in windows, like xip, winzip, rar... and send the archive to the backup server, be it it linux or windows based.
Processes don't update FAT tables in general. The kernel FS driver does that. And I'm sure they have it down pat by now.
Yeah -- for sake of integrity, probably sufficient to limit to single writers/readers.
Was just thinking of multi-processing cases where one file is writing/updating the FAT, but another might be reading -- and could get inconsistent values if the reader read the FAT table in the middle of an update -- seems like that could cause some unpredictability -- but is easily avoided if you only allow exclusive access if someone wants to write it.
It is a non issue, even in windows. Only the operating system writes or reads the fat, even if several processes are writing to files on the same disk - as it is often the case. Only disk repair or defrag programs have problems with accesing the FAT, they need exclusive access to the disk. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIh8Y+tTMYHG2NR9URAn9uAJ9HijvRS0bQyO896Vttzkfn3f8qaQCggyao fqZuyBehYou4eT0TD83R6SM= =wT7D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org