dump problems
Julian H. Stacey
jhs at berklix.org
Mon Sep 10 07:19:53 PDT 2007
Markus Hitter wrote:
>
> Am 10.09.2007 um 10:14 schrieb Danny Braniss:
>
> > so here are some questions:
> > - is the readers/writer split realy needed now? my guess it was
> > put in in the old days to get tapes streaming - which is
> > btw,
> > what's not working.
>
> Before you put a lot of efforts into this: Why don't you just let
> dump/restore die and put functionality, which is needed and unique to
> dump, into tar?
Bundling the kitchen sink has worried some since first cries of
"Emacs = Bloat": Some believe. Some don't. Religious.
> Tar is far more popular, today's world is
> multiplatform, today's world is multi-filesystem and if you rewrite
> dump, you force admins to rewrite their scripts anyways.
>
> I've always considered it as sub-optimal to have several tools for
> one task.
Depend if others agree one definition of task.
I wouldnt merge dump & restor either.
Principle of least suprise,
Maintain portability of people & tools between the many flavours of Unix.
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Julian Stacey. Munich Computer Consultant, BSD Unix C Linux. http://berklix.com
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