----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Steinkuehler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 11:14 AM Subject: [Leaf-user] Dachstein features: Floppy vs CD
> I'm hoping to get time in the near future to make a release version of the > floppy-based Dachstein firewall. I am already planning on porting some of > the CD features (like support for pkgpath.cfg and lrpkg.cfg files) to the > floppy version, but I'm also strongly considering migrating the new backup > scripts to the floppy version as well. > > While the support for partial backups is not nearly so critical when running > from floppy as when running from CD, it might be a useful feature in some > situations, and the new backup scripts support all features of the previous > scripts, so no functionality is lost. The big advantage is consistency > across the floppy and CD release, making it easier to develop and maintain. > The main drawback is the potential for the new scripts to be confusing to a > new user, and the fact that much existing documentation will not properly > reflect the new backup mechanisms. I have used LRP since 2.9.4 was released, so my opinion are of someone who (thinks he) knows what he is talking about. Untill LEAF develops a GUI interface (not likely) I would hazard to guess that to ANY new user LEAF will seam a bit confusing. My opinion, merge the floppy and CD scripts together, since this would seam to alow new versions of Dachstein (and any future versions) to be relased as a media neatural system (there is more than one persion on this list that uses Flash, CDROM, diskette, LS-120, ZIP, and Hard Disk). This also reduces version support since tech support would based on Dachstein v.x.x.x instead of Dachstein v.x.x.x (Media). > I'd like to hear from anyone who's used a recent Dachstein CD release and a > previous floppy release. I'm specifically interested in how confusing (or > intuitive) you found the backup routines, and any thoughts or concerns you > might have about making the CD backup routines the 'standard issue' for all > flavors of Dachstein. Changing the destination on Dachstein CD through me for a loop at first (untill I relized it was trying to backup to a CD) since I was used to Eigerstein2BETA, but beyond that, I would like to just see some documentation (the bane of Open Source Projects) since im still fuzzy about the backup options. > Charles Steinkuehler > http://lrp.steinkuehler.net > http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
