On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Hugo Mills <h...@carfax.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:41:56PM +0200, Alexander Block wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Arne Jansen <sensi...@gmx.net> wrote:
>> > On 04.07.2012 15:39, Alexander Block wrote:
>> >> Hello all,
>> >>
>> >> This is the user space side of btrfs send/receive.
>> >>
>> >> You can apply them manually or use my git repo:
>> >>
>> >> git://github.com/ablock84/btrfs-progs.git (branch send)
>> >>
>> >> The branch is based on Hugo's integration-20120605 branch. I had to add a
>> >> temporary
>> >> commit to fix a bug introduced in one of the strncpy/overflow patches
>> >> that got into
>> >> btrfs-progs. This fix is not part of the btrfs send/receive patchset, but
>> >> you'll
>> >> probably need it if you want to base on the integration branch. I hope
>> >> this is not
>> >> required in the future when a new integration branch comes out.
>> >>
>> >> Example usage:
>> >>
>> >> Multiple snapshots at once:
>> >> btrfs send /mnt/snap[123] > snap123.btrfs
>> >
>> > a) Do we really want a single token command here, not
>> > btrfs filesystem send or subvol send?
>> In my opinion the single token is easier to type and remember. But if
>> enough speaks for normal subcommands this can be changed (but by
>> someone else as I'm running out of time).
>
> Since everything else is two commands, yes, I think we need it for
> consistency. (And, since it's a publically-visible interface, for
> acceptance of the patches -- we don't want to be changing the way the
> commands work after the fact).
>
>> > b) zfs makes sure stdout is not a tty, to prevent flooding
>> > your console. This kinda makes sense.
>> This makes sense. But again, this has to be done by someone else.
>
> Can you keep a brief list of such cleanups/features and dump it on
> the wiki as a proposed project when your time does run out, please.
> That way the details don't get lost, and they can be found by other
> people and dealt with independently.
Added a page to the wiki:
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Btrfs_Send/Receive
>
> Hugo.
>
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