[UFO Chicago] Happy Billennium!

Nick Moffitt nick@zork.net
Sun, 9 Sep 2001 17:25:48 -0700


begin  Nate Riffe  quotation:
> On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Nick Moffitt wrote:
> > 	The spindles your data now live on will likely not last two
> > decades, and the software will probably accomodate the 2038 issue
> > long before then.
> 
> Those of us who do hard disk upgrades using dd will have a problem.

	Doing an upgrade with dd is abysmally slow.  Far better to use
rsync or even cpio.  

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