[PLUG] CDROM filename problem
Russ Johnson
russj at dimstar.net
Mon Mar 31 10:00:02 UTC 2003
* Vincent Damewood <vincentdamewood at yahoo.com> [2003-03-31 09:28]:
>
> --- Bill Spears <bspears at easystreet.com> wrote:
> > But if I'm backing up a home directory -R would be
> > better, right?
>
> I wouldn't. The thing is, RockRidge stores UID's, not
> usernames.
As far as I know, userNAMES are never stored in the file system. It's ALWAYS UID and GID. The OS does the lookup to see who owns a fileentry.
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