On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:23 AM, dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wednesday 17 November 2010 18:14:35 Venkatesh Srinivas wrote:
> (...)

> I'd be very careful with vac -m and -a on Unix; both have been at the
> root of considerable data-loss on a unix venti for me. I'd recommend
> vac-ing tarballs, rather than using vac's on unix trees directly. But
> your mileage may vary...

could you please elaborate a bit about that data loss?
traversing symlinks breaks? some files not getting read by vac at all?

(I'm interested in using p9p vac+venti in similar manner, but on Linux w/ GNU
stuff)

--
dexen deVries

I could imagine vac/unvac not dealing with resource forks or POSIX extended attributes and such properly, as well as potentially having difficulty with symlinks, but having dealt with stuff like that in "xar", I don't think it's too difficult to address.

I may need to read up on venti and see what sorts of data types it supports. Might be time to add some extensions?

Dave

``One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.''