On Saturday 10 May 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: > > A backup device is just a storage appliance, if should not be > > parochial about the origin of the data it stores. > > But because there are different requirements (features of the > filesystems), what you're saying is not correct.
No, what YOU should be saying is: YOUR requirements for backups do not meet the same criteria as Neil's. So in YOUR case it is not correct but in Neil's it very well may be. You are conflating your specific case with the general case. > And why do you make such a fuss about such a natural thing? Because it is natural from his point of view? Your point of view may differ, and you are free to work according to that (and should) but that doesn't mean that your case is universally applicable. Claiming that is illogical in the extreme. > There's > just no reason in sharing such a device/filesystem/"storage endpoint" > between different operating systems. Yes, in your case that is true. But please at least acknowledge the following: 1. You never touch Neil's data 2. You do not maintain his systems 3. His mistakes and successes do not impact you in any significant way 4. Neil is free to do with his data whatever he likes 5. If you don't like how he does things, that's tough 6. If you are entitled to tell other people the one correct way to do action X, then they are just as entitled to tell you how to perform action Y the correct way. And to be consistent, you will have to follow their assessment whether you agree with it or not. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
