On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 18:50 -0700, Jamie Zawinski wrote:
Colin Walters wrote:
My impression was that several people have looked at modifying GNU tar to support xattrs, and ended up running away screaming...
That doesn't mean it's the wrong thing to do! Deprecating tar doesn't sound like a winning idea to me.
Yeah, I agree. On the other hand though some of the newer formats like dar's have more advantages besides xattrs, like handling file deletions, and being indexed. So we might actually want both; tar for people still clinging to their tape drives, and something like dar for people backing up to disk.
Surely someone will make their sanity saving throw.
Heh. Maybe, but I think we're talking about a level 50 Cruft here...