On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 02:00:49 CDT, David Masover said:

> >>Speaking of backup, that's another nice place for a plugin.  Imagine a
> >>dump that didn't have to be of the entire FS, but rather an arbitrary
> >>tree...  That might be a nice new archive format.  I know Apple already
> >>uses something like this for their dmg packages.
> > Hmm.. you mean like 'tar' or 'cpio' or 'pax' or 'rsync'? :) 
> No, a dmg is an OS X program installer.  It appears to be a disk image
> of sorts.  So this is the backup idea in reverse.

I was addressing the ability to deal with an arbitrary tree.  By that definition,
a dmg, being a disk image and not a tree image, is *not* what you want....