UFS and ext2 systems are supported well by vbackup, but only rudimentarily by vac. For me, the problem began, when I started to use ZFS on FreeBSD. A vbackup is essentially just a single sparse file containing all used blocks on the disk.
This cannot apply to a zfs system. In vac/plan9port, symbolic links are saved nominally, but not the string telling where the link goes. This would be fixable, causing problems for vac files when used on Plan9. And, in the Unix world, there are more unsupported features, such as ACLs and file flags(noschg eg.). Some of them are not supported by tar either. The nearest thing to what I want, was presented at the last IWP9, which maps the unsupported features from 9p2000.L to 9P2000. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Taf5e3581b0a00ee0-Mae611a55f5f67ffce54fc54f Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
