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. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
