What are disadvanteges of having raw devices ?

Answer Posted / orawhiz

We should depend on export/import utility for
backup/recovery (fully reliable)

The tar command cannot be used for physical file backup,
instead we can use dd command which is less flexible and has
limited recoveries.

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