From: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bdar: efficiently backup allocated bytes in file systems
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:47:10 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <frns1u$286$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 47DF1737.2050700@zabbo.net
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:13:27 -0700, Zach Brown wrote:
> The bdar file format is just a header and then a series of regions of
> bytes described by their length and offset. To create a bdar file from
> a file system bdar needs to know enough to figure out what extents are
> referenced. Restoring a bdar is generic, though, it just stamps bytes
> into the target file.
Is it possible to also make it write files out in partimage (
http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page ) format or will this slow it down too
much?
--
Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-19 20:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-18 1:13 bdar: efficiently backup allocated bytes in file systems Zach Brown
2008-03-18 7:47 ` Sitsofe Wheeler [this message]
2008-03-20 16:25 ` Zach Brown
2008-03-18 21:35 ` David Chinner
2008-03-18 22:06 ` Zach Brown
2008-03-18 23:52 ` David Chinner
2008-03-20 0:26 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2008-03-20 1:13 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-03-20 0:32 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-03-19 2:58 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-03-19 3:10 ` Zach Brown
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