dump problems

[Markus Hitter]

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? 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.


Markus

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