Can you tar and untar an entire root filesystem and expect it to work? Would the tarring process clobber device files and named pipes and whatnot? I'm basically trying to "image" a system by tarring / ...
I have been tasked with getting our developers to use .rpm packages to deploy their web applications to our RHEL 5 and 6 jboss servers. Currently we drop in .ear files manually, whenever the devs want ...