On 6 April 2014 12:35, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org> wrote:
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> But OSTree is much more flexible than traditional block replication
> because:
It is very unlike the unix philosophy to need a lot of ways to do
something. Why isn't there one tool that does it right in the first
place - and can work appropriately for 2 systems the same as 2,000?

What Unix philosophy or religion? The whole 'one tool does one thing' is not what Unix has ever been.. it is a rosy glasses view forgetting all the arguments over whether awk+sed+sh or sh+sed+awk or special program G was the best way to solve a problem. Which gets down to the fundamental issue. Humans are not lock step creatures.. they will think differently and see different ways to solve a problem and the universe is complex enough that it works so much that people get frustrated with each other because they would like just one way to do things (their way).

Stephen J Smoogen.