backups
Colin Walters
walters at redhat.com
Mon Sep 20 02:06:54 UTC 2004
On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 18:50 -0700, Jamie Zawinski wrote:
> Colin Walters wrote:
> >
> > My impression was that several people have looked at modifying GNU tar
> > to support xattrs, and ended up running away screaming...
>
> That doesn't mean it's the wrong thing to do! Deprecating tar doesn't
> sound like a winning idea to me.
Yeah, I agree. On the other hand though some of the newer formats like
dar's have more advantages besides xattrs, like handling file deletions,
and being indexed. So we might actually want both; tar for people still
clinging to their tape drives, and something like dar for people backing
up to disk.
> Surely someone will make their sanity saving throw.
Heh. Maybe, but I think we're talking about a level 50 Cruft here...
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