Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 23:55:28 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: rjesup@wgate.com, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, josb@cncdsl.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DJBDNS vs. BIND Message-ID: <3AA5DB60.86A5C03D@softweyr.com> References: <200103062353.QAA02845@usr05.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote:
>
> The reductio ad absurdum of putting things in text files for fear
> of binary file corruption not being as recoverable as text, is to
> store the kernel itself as text, in order to make it recoverable,
> since a binary file is "too hard to recover".
Except the system rarely crashes in the middle of updating the kernel,
even with Edge on the system.
> I think people are using "binary file recovery is hard" as code
> for "I didn't do backups, and humans can at least salvage some
> data from a corrupt text file, if it's not too corrupt".
>
> [...]
>
> I don't see text files as being any safer than binary, except in
> the case of human recovery in the absence of a backup.
That was precisely the point.
> I would argue that human recovery is not a useful scenario, even
> in the absence of a backup.
Which flies in the face of every system recovery ever attempted, including
the one I got to do last week. Even if you just finished a full backup
of the system when it crashed/got killed, some files may be out of date.
--
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Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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