On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Silver Salonen <sil...@ultrasoft.ee> wrote: > On Wednesday 24 February 2010 15:58:57 John Drescher wrote: >> > OK. I have never used tapes with Bacula. But I'd expect a file-type device > to >> > be able to load more than 1 volume at a time. It's quite trivial, isn't > it? >> > >> This was a design decision that all devices are treated the same way. > > It's like assuming that the "ultimate" backup-devices are tapes. And as I > don't think that way,
I would but this will get us off topic. > it's so annoying these design decisions rely on > somebody's (emotional/historical) opinion. > I believe this was Kern's decision. > > What's the use of treating all the devices the same way anyway? Ease of > programming? Even though it makes this part of the whole project so rigid? > Ease of programming, reliability of the code, ease of testing. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
