4.x can't read 5.x dump?

[Kirk Strauser]

On Thursday 02 December 2004 05:55, Nick Barnes wrote:

> There's no theoretical reason why the formats used by dump and restore
> shouldn't be forward and backward compatible, allowing an older
> restore (to an older filesystem type) to pick out the parts of the
> dump which make sense to it while ignoring parts which it doesn't
> understand.

There may be security reasons, though.  If you've locked down a filesystem 
through the extensive use of ACLs, then you wouldn't want to dump/restore 
it to another system that doesn't support those ACLs and expect your 
security framework to still be intact - at least not without *lots* of 
warnings.
-- 
Kirk Strauser
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