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From: Manuel McLure <manuel@××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rsync from ext3 to vfat?
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:13:02
Message-Id: CAGJrxsTHr-qF+fGY+UUZAazXQiBbZQ85VwQuTZZS4AHQ81CCHQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] rsync from ext3 to vfat? by "mike@trausch.us"
1 On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:03 PM, mike@×××××××.us <mike@×××××××.us> wrote:
2 > rsync works just fine with any normal set of options when using any sort
3 > of FAT as a destination.  There are, of course, a couple of gotchas:
4 >
5 >  - FAT has limitations on file sizes.
6 >  - FAT cannot store permissions or ACLs
7 >  - FAT does not support extended attributes
8 >
9 > Other than that, though, you should be good.
10
11 Add "FAT considers two filenames that are the same except for case as
12 the same filename" to that list. NTFS has the same limitation.
13 --
14 Manuel A. McLure WW1FA <manuel@××××××.org> <http://www.mclure.org>
15 ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law,
16 no man may kill a cat.                       -- H.P. Lovecraft

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Re: [gentoo-user] rsync from ext3 to vfat? "mike@×××××××.us" <mike@×××××××.us>
Re: [gentoo-user] rsync from ext3 to vfat? Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>