Deploring *nix Philosophy
Alan Horn
ahorn at deorth.org
Wed Jun 9 23:14:01 UTC 2004
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Mike McMullen wrote:
>Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 15:02:13 -0700
>From: Mike McMullen <mlm at loanprocessing.net>
>Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: Deploring *nix Philosophy
>
> I'm coming in on the middle of this but having said that...
>
> You can use tar to go to multiple floppies. I have done it
> several times but not within the last 3 years. I don't have
> any floppies or I'd test it right now.
Perhaps I'm also coming in halfway here..
Yes.. you _can_, but the more floppies you use, the greater chance of
failure... And I'm not convinced that it's a strongly used feature in any
case.
My gut feeling would be to avoid multi volume tar archives.. too prone to
failure later.
Cheers,
Al
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