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. -- Julian Stacey. Munich Computer Consultant, BSD Unix C Linux. http://berklix.com Ihr Rauch=mein allergischer Kopfschmerz. Dump cigs 4 snuff.Received on Mon Sep 10 2007 - 12:19:53 UTC
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