From: "Alan Horn" <ahorn@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 4:14 PM Subject: Re: Deploring *nix Philosophy > > On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Mike McMullen wrote: > > >Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 15:02:13 -0700 > >From: Mike McMullen <mlm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > >To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > >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 Well I don't think it was a question of whether you should but whether you could. There seemed to be a lot of discussion around why you couldn't do it when you can. That's all I was pointing out. Mike
