On Wednesday 06 December 2006 19:35, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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But the tradeoff with per-file compression is that you typically get rather poor compression for archives that contain many small files.
Yes, the compression ratio is a bit worse, but that's something I will happily sacrifice for safety where backups are concerned.
But what is this "safety" we're talking about? Usually if a file is corrupted, it's massively corrupted and if it's intact, then it's intact. It's a specious safety you get with the CPIO approach. Either you back-ups are intact or they're not.
I have some backups of an entire HD done using nearly a hundred floppies - you can imagine when - and the whole backup is still fully retrievable, although some floppies have errors.
Yes. Thank god we're now far beyond the floppy era. There is nothing that can meaningfully be done with a diskette as far as archiving or back-ups are concerned. And any "sneaker-net" style application is far better handled with a USB flash drive.
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I wish I could make "info" go away. I hate it. In addition to the atrocious tools used to access it,
Try "pinfo" instead. It doesn't make the contents better, of course, just easier to navigate ;-)
Spoken like a true advocate of quasi-GUIs like Midnight Commander. Yuck. Gross. Eesh. No thank you. It's a bad and wholly unnecessary model. Konqueror's "info:" scheme presents them fine, but they're awful in their essence. RRS --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org