Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Rik van Riel
2004-08-27T14:14:54Z

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Hans Reiser wrote:

> 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.

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