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Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives 
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>If tar is patched then it would be no
>problem and no extra stuff but perhaps a switch --save-metas.

Aaargh. How about a tar that recognizes when the filesystem has metas and 
saves/restores them by default, with a warning when it's losings data because 
it's restoring to a simpler filesystem?

And maybe a switch --forget-metas.

Thousands of sys-admins will thank you to not make it easier to lose data with 
the scripts they have already written.


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