Hello! Kern Sibbald schrieb:
> The problem is that with your scheme, those operations will continue to fail > on disk volumes after the volume has been recycled. [...] > Yes, your understanding of how tapes work is incorrect. > >> When I write 20MB on a 4GB tape, the >> size of the tape will remain 4GB. > > No, the tape is now 20MB has a *clearly* defined end of data mark, and some > garbage after the end of the data mark. > If you re-write 20MB on a 4GB disk file, the disk file is still 4GB and there > is no end of data mark at 20MB as is the case on a tape. Ah, I think now I understand your point. But this is not a k.o. argument since you could just explicitely write an end of data mark to the file. This would prevent the failing of operations you mentioned above, if I understand you properly now. > I'm not interested in turning Bacula into an operating system. Absolutely, but maybe you are interested in creating software that is aware of outbound limitations and in creating software that moves away discrepancies from users -- if possible; just like all professional software should do. >> Well, the world out there will not miss very much, wether bacula >> truncates anything or not. > >> But what I am really fed up with are arrogant >> open source developers who think their users were too stupid. > > You seem to be attributing a difference of opinion we have as being arrogance > on my part then projecting that on "open source developers" and finally > drawing a conclusion about what those open source developers think about > their users. No, I like discussions and criticism. Differences of opinions are perfectly fine. Your intonation of your first replies were arrogant, e.g. answering to ideas of users (two cents) with words like "never" is not a good idea. You needed several mails to come up with substantial statements. Your behaviour is just typical for many -- not all -- OSS developers. This is not a generalisation of your posts, it's a general obversation that is validated by your posts. > You are entitled to your opinion, but your logic is as faulty, and your > opinion and conclusions are certainly not mine. Dissence accepted, except of faulty logic. I would like to stop this flame war, since the objective (truncation) is not worth of it. I hope both of us learned some lessons? /hm p.s.: yes, i am also arrogant. :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
