From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: State of dump utility
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 11:17:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201002151724.GT23474@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201002120158.uyyx3cg5gdeoe665@work>
On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 02:01:58PM +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote:
>
> Thanks Ted, you made some good points and while there are some good
> ideas for the future, there is no place for dump there. I think we're in
> agreement to pull the plug on dump.
I think the only strong argument for dump/restore is that there might
be some crazy^H^H^H^H^H^H dedicated hobbiests over at The Unix
Historical Society who might find a 9-track tape with some 2.10 BSD
backup on it, and dump/restore is format compatible with it. So
_restore_ might be interesting for some of those folks. Then again,
they'd probably prefer to actually restore it on their 2.10 BSD system
running on a PDP-11 emulator.... so we're probably good. :-)
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-02 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-29 14:37 State of dump utility Lukas Czerner
2020-09-30 2:06 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-10-02 12:01 ` Lukas Czerner
2020-10-02 15:17 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
2020-10-02 12:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20201002151724.GT23474@mit.edu \
--to=tytso@mit.edu \
--cc=lczerner@redhat.com \
--cc=linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.