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Re: add and copy a partition



> On Sun, 28 May 2000, Omer Mussaev wrote:
> 
> > > Any reason why not to use cp -a that I'm not aware of?
> > 
> > first: using tar is POSIX compliant, thus you can use tar method on
> > any POSIX(applications) compliant machine.
> > second: this is the Unix way.
> 
> Let me add my own reason for why I like the tar|tar trick better: it's 
> standard. No, not in UNIX: in programmer think. You know what the standard
> way is to copy objects in Java? Why, serialize/deserialize. You know what
> the standard way is to copy objects in Python? Why, pickle/unpickle.
> The *correct* way to copy in a pointer-isomorphic way, is by a
> serialize/deserialize mechanism. But that's *exactly* the meaning of tar.
> 


Your terms are very cryptic for me. Would you mind elaborating on what is 
serialize/deserialize? pickle/unpickle? pointer-isomorphic way? 
serialize/deserialize mechanism?


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