On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Hans Reiser wrote: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.
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.