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From: David Pottage <david@electric-spoon.com>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: btrfs problems and fedora 14
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 10:36:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CEF8D9B.8070306@electric-spoon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <03d3ps1jjj.fsf@msgid.viggen.net>

On 26/11/10 10:11, Oystein Viggen wrote:
> What would be really awesome is some sort of "btrfs-send" program that
> handles all this the best way for you, but I don't think that exists
> (yet).  User friendly tools will undoubtedly appear as btrfs is more
> used, but I guess it's still partly in the "roll your own" early adopter
> stage.  :)
>    
I agree.

In the past this sort of thing has been handled by adding features to 
tar, so that tar 'knows' how to pack up a filesystem with the latest new 
features (extended meta data for example), and how to restore that data 
at the other end.

-- 
David Pottage.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-26 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-22 23:19 btrfs problems and fedora 14 david grant
2010-11-22 23:28 ` Hugo Mills
2010-11-23  4:47 ` Wenyi Liu
2010-11-23  6:45   ` C Anthony Risinger
2010-11-24  7:32     ` david grant
2010-11-24  9:19       ` cwillu
2010-11-26  9:40         ` david grant
2010-11-26 10:11           ` Oystein Viggen
2010-11-26 10:36             ` David Pottage [this message]
2010-11-26 17:47           ` cwillu

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