On 08/29/2015 09:05 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> 1 is out of scope for what the tool is meant to do
>
> 2 is not a bad idea but you would need to also get the upstream developers to buy into the idea.
>
>    Original Message
> From: ToddAndMargo
> Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2015 23:28
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: I asked Red Hat for two feature in xfsdump
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258189
>
> 1) back up a directory that is not a mount point
>
> 2) compression
>


You know, with Open Source, you don't always get what you
ask for.  But you do get a lot of it.

Unlike Closed Source, where you get none of it.  There are
exceptions to both.