On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Please keep in mind that these drives are available for ~ 6 months now and I am
> very busy. The drive I received short before christmas died a few days later so
> the planned time during the holidays could not be used. The next drive has been
> delivered in march and Easter was too short... I did write all the test
> software but did not manage to write code to use the drive because of lack of
> time.
I think we all understand "lack of time." People who want to use that
drive will wait, people who want a drive today won't buy that one.
> I am currently spending most of my time with star and "true incremental dumps".
> I hopte that I will be able to convince people to stop using the non-standard
> GNU tar in favor of my better and even older star.
I don't think most people have the slightest interest in star, because the
tar which comes from the vendor works fine for them. I appreciate that
star works for certain corner cases and enormous files, but most people
don't have a problem and don't want to switch to another program with
different command line options than the vendor. In truth the speed
advantage star once had is now only valuable on really old slow machines.
Vendor tar will saturate the output device unless it's a raw disk
partition. backup via NIC or tape is hardware limited.
I don't say this because I dislike star, just that I (and most people)
have no reason to change. Most people care so little about the "ANSI
format" that they don't even know about the "-Hustar" option to cpio,
which write ANSI (I believe there are a few corner cases again, but the
format is correct for anything most people ever want to do).
> Once I have time, I will add support...
Your time is your own, but I doubt that any amount of added features will
make most users change, they have no problems with what they have.
Virtually everyone uses cdrecord, it's higher in both utilization and
appreciation.
-- rob bogus
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