zip (was: Re: Disk archival techniques)

[Dwight K. Elvey]

>From: "John Foust" <jfoust at threedee.com>
>
>There's plenty of file system meta-data out there to confound
>this process.  Blindly archiving and un-archiving will destroy
>data that's not inside the file.  There's a lot to be said for 
>archiving images of entire filesystems.  What, timestamps
>aren't important?  Creation dates as well as last-modified dates?
>Archive bits?  At least 'tar' preserves Unix's groups and 
>permissions to a reasonable degree.  
>

Hi
 In one file system I'm looking at, the directory contains
the information as to what type of file it is ( not in the
name of the file either ). Things like system only executable
and word processor format are not encoded in the file name
or the file it self on the one I'm looking at.
 Also, missing from the file are things like start address
and load address.
Dwight