From: adam@address.invalid   
      
   Jim Beard wrote:   
   > On 06/16/2012 02:46 PM, Adam wrote:   
   >    
   >> I have a partition for automated nightly tarball backups on my   
   >> external HD.  I'm going to change it to VFAT so it can be read by   
   >> Windows or Mac.  This way, if my internal HD dies completely, I   
   >> can bring the external HD to any other computer and retrieve my   
   >> backups.   
   >   
   > Do note you will lose a bunch of information on each file held in the   
   > Inode, if you shift to VFAT.   
      
   But wouldn't that only apply to the tarball file itself, where all that   
   information really wouldn't matter?  I thought that 'tar' itself stored   
   all the inode information for each file within it.  My nightly backups   
   are currently in .tar.gz format, if that matters.   
      
   Adam   
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