On 04/07/10 16:15, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> On 04/07/10 12:06, Robert LeBlanc wrote (in bacula-users):
>> So still thinking about this, is there any reason to not have a
>> hierarchical file structure for disk based backup rather than a
>> serialized stream? Here are my thought, any comments welcome to have a
>> good discussion about this.
Copied here, by the way, because while a pretty major project, it seems
to me it's not a bad idea at all. On the one hand, there's Heinlein -
"Specialization is for insects." But on the other, there's the Unix
paradigm - "Do one job; do it well." With smarter filesystems coming
out with things like automatic deduplication and block-level
copy-on-write, a separate, specialized disk FD could make a lot of
sense, especially if it was transparent to the rest of Bacula. Whether
a completely different back-end such as Robert is proposing *could*
feasibly be made completely transparent to Bacula is another question.
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