Re: [PLUG] disk (filesystem) imaging one liner: corrections and a recent use case

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

On 04/28/2016 03:43 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 2:51 PM, JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org> wrote:
> > Very cool!  I was going to ask why you used `lzop` instead of just `ssh -C`
> > but you already answered that in-line in that a) "-C" only compresses
> > on-the-wire, and it's nice to have the target file compressed and b) "space
> > tech."  :-)
>
> Why cpio and not just tar?  I don't think cpio really has any
> advantages these days unless you're making an initramfs.

Or unpacking RPMs.

Later,
JP
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