On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Silver Salonen <silver AT ultrasoft DOT 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

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