From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264377AbUH0Mch (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 08:32:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264297AbUH0Map (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 08:30:45 -0400 Received: from hermine.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:29714 "HELO hermine.aitel.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264261AbUH0M3H (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 08:29:07 -0400 Message-ID: <412F2A09.7050104@hist.no> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:33:13 +0200 From: Helge Hafting User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040715) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Jackson CC: riel@redhat.com, mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, torvalds@osdl.org, hch@lst.de, reiser@namesys.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 References: <412D968B.9030107@hist.no> <20040826022137.1504ffb7.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20040826022137.1504ffb7.pj@sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Paul Jackson wrote: >Helge wrote: > > >>So an old "tar" won't get this right as it will assume that an object >>is either file or directory. >> >> > >There are many backup apps, not just one. I've written a few myself, >none of which will ever be worthy of notice. The sourceforge >Topic.System.Archiving.Backup lists 335 projects at present. > >I find the idea that most backup tools and scripts will silently >stop working correctly to be pretty scary. > > They won't stop working, they will merely not support the new features. That is only a problem if you actually use those features. If all you have is plain files and plain directories - no problem. Not if files-as-directories are implemented right. Helge Hafting