You will be glad to know that the index is scheduled to appear in every December issue, covering the previous year. It will probably not be printed on the last pages of the issue. We've sold that advertising space, and we can't just take it back for a month. You had a really good article on find , and I knew I'd learn something in that Linux System Administration article on adding a new disk. I use her method of moving directories and pointing soft links to them as a last resort.
Most people prefer tar because it is a little easier to learn how to use, for most people.
When cpio needs to create a directory that isn't explicitly included in the archive, it does it with 700 permissions, whereas tar uses 755. 755 is arguably more useful in most circumstances. I understand that some versions of tar have not properly preserved hard links, but I've just tested to make sure that GNU tar does preserve hard links correctly. In general, most of the advantages of each archiver have been added to the other over time, so it's a matter of taste. S.E. Linux Dear Editor, I would like to commend the folks at S.u.