Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:14:00 +0200 From: Markus Hitter <mah@jump-ing.de> To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, 'cpghost' <cpghost@cordula.ws>, 'Gavin Atkinson' <gavin@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: dump problems Message-ID: <74423CD8-F9C1-454D-83BB-0114402C2CCC@jump-ing.de> In-Reply-To: <E1IUePt-000P2R-RM@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> References: <E1ISdQi-000GkC-4v@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> <20070904233246.GA2409@epia-2.farid-hajji.net> <E1ISnig-000Nbm-Ep@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> <043a01c7f202$a7ad0920$f7071b60$@co.uk> <E1IU10R-000MRT-T8@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> <046801c7f229$a4534510$ecf9cf30$@co.uk> <E1IUcXc-000NdZ-LH@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> <E1IUePt-000P2R-RM@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il>
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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? 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. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/
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