On Wed, 07 May 2008 16:41:17 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote:

> >> Can you elaborate more on the latter, please? What exactly is rsync
> >> relying on and which fs wouldn't meet the requirements.
> >
> > FAT on an external drive,
>
> Why not put ext* or reiserfs or whatever on such a drive?

Because you need to access it from Windows too? Installing the Windows
ext2/3 drivers isn't always an option.


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