backups

Jamie Zawinski jwz at jwz.org
Mon Sep 20 01:50:27 UTC 2004


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.  Surely someone will make their sanity
saving throw.

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Jamie Zawinski
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