Deploring *nix Philosophy

[Alan Horn]

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