Re: find-new possibility of showing modified and deleted files/directories

[Gabriel <g2p.code@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:29:36 +0100, Arne Jansen wrote:
> On 01.11.2012 12:00, Gabriel wrote:
>> On Thu, 01 Nov 2012 06:06:57 +0100, Arne Jansen wrote:
>>> On 11/01/2012 02:28 AM, Shane Spencer wrote:
>>>> That's Plan B.  I'll be making a btrfs stream decoder and doing in
>>>> place edits.  I need to move stuff around to other filesystem types
>>>> otherwise I'd just store the stream or apply the stream to a remote
>>>> snapshot.
>> 
>>> That's the whole point of the btrfs-send design: It's very easy to
>>> receive on different filesystems. A generic receiver is in
>>> preparation.
>>> And to make it even more generic: A sender using the same stream
>>> format is also in preparation for zfs.
>> 
>> Consider the rsync bundle format as well.
>> That should provide interoperability with any filesystem.
> 
> Rsync is an interactive protocol. The idea with send/receive is that the
> stream can be generated without any interactions with receiver. You can
> store the stream somewhere, or replay it to many destinations.

Same with rsync's batch mode. Here is more about it:

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/rsync.1.html#contenttoc21