[arch-general] Maximum JFS file (not filesytem) size

[Damjan Georgievski]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 05:49, Dwight Schauer<dschauer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear fellow Archers,
>
> I tarred up a couple filesystems and piped the tar stream through ssh
> to a remote computer where I dd'ed it to a file. This a common backup
> method I've been using for a few years now if I'm going to wipe a
> system and start over.

Why did you need to use dd? Wouldn't cat be enough?
Maybe dd has some limitation/bug?

-- 
damjan