Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> 
> No one said "education". I said warn users of the advisability of
> using a dedicated filesystem that can easily be
> copied/resized/moved. Because most people don't recognize the problem
> of copying/moving/resizing their BackupPC database until they have
> been using it for a while at which point it might be too late.
> 
> And I didn't say LVM is the only solution - though I am not aware of
> too many other solutions on Linux that allow easy resizing and
> spreading of a single filesystem across multiple solutions. If there
> are many others that allow that, please enlighten me...

You make it sound a lot harder than it is.  Just get some new disks the 
right size and start over, keeping the old filesystem around for 
emergencies until the new one accumulates a suitable history.

> I think you are the one with "shenanigans" based on your unwillingness
> to open your mind to other needs and other solutions -- and if you
> had been a long-time contributor to this newsgroup, you would realize
> that this issue continues to arise without satisfactory solution no
> matter how many times people parrot the words "LVM", "ZFS", "block
> copy", etc.

There are solutions.  It's your choice if you don't want to use them.

> It is a kludge to use hard-links as the way of tracking and expiring
> backups while using an attrib file to store the usual attributes
> associated with a file.

That might be philosophically true, but I can't recall an actual problem 
caused by the attrib files.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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