Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:44:30 -0400 |
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On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 14:27, Hans Reiser wrote: > Rik van Riel wrote: > >On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Hans Reiser wrote: > > > >>Why are you guys even considering going to any pain at all to distort > >>semantics for the sake of backup? tar is easy, we'll fix it and send in > >>a patch. > > > >Because not everybody uses tar. Quite a few people use a > >network backup system, while others use duplicity, RPM uses > >cpio internally and big companies tend to use proprietary > >network backup suites. > > > >Breaking people's setup is something to worry about. > > > It is the tail that should not wag the dog. New semantics are going to > break backups other than dd. We need a LOT of new semantics if we > don't want to be inferior to Apple and MS. > > We should implement backup plugin methods though, so that we only have > to break things once....
Every Linux shop I know of uses amanda anyway, which will not be affected by these changes, as it uses dump/restore. restore will need minor changes, I think dump might not have to be changed at all.
If your backup system can't easily handle these changes, that's a pretty good indication that it's poorly designed.
Lee
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