File system issues

[Dominic Fandrey]

On 26/10/2014 18:37, Ian Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 09:27:15 +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
>  > On 26/10/2014 07:36, Ian Smith wrote:
> 
>  > > But then, the general expectation that new users will want a linux-style 
>  > > single / directory - sure, fine for VM use - cruels the potential to use 
>  > > dump and restore anyway.  It's a bit sad that this is still outstanding.
>  > 
>  > You can use dump from anywhere in the file system by way of nullfs
>  > mounts.
> 
> Thanks Dominic, I wasn't aware of that.  Not that it makes up for not 
> being able to not newfs filesystems you want to keep, and in fstab, but 
> it's definitely worth exploring as a workaround.

I have to withdraw my statement. I thought I had done it before, but I
cannot get it to work. I suppose that leaves us with tar.

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