[X-Unix] dmg for archiving

[Kirk McElhearn]

On 1/25/04 19:21, "Peter Marreck" <prm1 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> The advantage of using dmg over tar is the still-present resource-fork
> issue with Macs. Not to mention, you can double-click-mount the image,
> even a segmented one (as long as all segments are present in the same
> directory)... You can't do that with tar. The final advantage is the
> internal compression (although, yes, gzip is doable for that angle...)

The disadvantage - and I've seen this, when I used to use DMGs for archives
- is that if one byte gets screwed up you won't be able to mount the DMG.

I think you should definitely avoid any type of compression for any
long-term archiving.
 
 
Kirk
 
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