On 09Sep2018 06:45, Michael D. Setzer II <msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 8 Sep 2018 at 17:10, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
[...]
The link in the footer points to g4l, but nothing in your message
mentioning jetcat-mod makes that connection. Only an off-list message
from you explained it, and you then repeated the information on-list.
In my original message to the thread I specified that I had been the
maintainer of the g4l disk imaging project since 2004, and made some
comments. Later there was talk of using dd to do the copy, and I pulled the
one line from the 2000+ line script that specifically does the clone copy
process.
The entire project is on sourceforge with the source code. Project is
completely free, no paid options, no donations. Just an option that some
might find useful.
Wasn't trying to force it on anyone, and just sharing what I had seen over the
years.
As the one on the tar/cp side of this discussion, I'd like to support Michael
here.
He did indeed say he was the g4l maintainer. And he was perfectly clear when he
post his dd pipeline that it came from the g4l package. It isn't unreasonable
at all that it uses a tool that is part of that same package.
There's any number of "progress reporting cat" type commands out there; I've
got one of my own called prcat [1] (just a perl script accepting a commandline
buffer size, no fancy threading or parallelism).
IMO there's little value in this bickering over an _example_ command line whose
function is clear on inspection just because it has an odd but obviously
equivalent to "cat" command in the middle. Particularly since nothing in this
discussion is Fedora specific; it all applies to pretty much any Linux system
and nearly applies to any UNIX system in general (such as the Mac I'm typing
this on). Can we please go back to _technical_ discussion instead of this?
To satisfy the "no link to the code" people:
[1] https://bitbucket.org/cameron_simpson/css/src/tip/bin/prcat
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx>
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