From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Pottage Subject: Re: btrfs problems and fedora 14 Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 10:36:11 +0000 Message-ID: <4CEF8D9B.8070306@electric-spoon.com> References: <1290467983.24502.66.camel@main-wireless> <1290583953.2235.28.camel@main-wireless> <1290764456.4380.20.camel@main-wireless> <03d3ps1jjj.fsf@msgid.viggen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <03d3ps1jjj.fsf@msgid.viggen.net> List-ID: 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.