On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Otto Moerbeek <o...@drijf.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 08:30:54AM -0700, Steve Williams wrote:
> > cpio has always been my "go to" for file system duplication because it
> will
> > re-create device nodes.
>
> Both pax and tar do that as well.
>

Come on, you still remember using tar back in the 90's when it didn't
support devices, paths were 100 bytes _total_, and they didn't include
user/group names (only UID/GID), right?  Good times!

Philip

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