On Wednesday 21 March 2007 14:47, Hans Manz wrote: > 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 sorry, but the only end of data mark for a file is the end of file (i.e. truncate it). > > > 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
