On 06.04.2013 20:30, Eric Sandeen wrote: > From: Mark Fasheh <mfas...@suse.de> > > btrfs-progs: re-add send-test > > send-test.c links against libbtrfs and uses the send functionality provided > to decode and print a send stream to the console.
This looks pretty much like fardump from Arne's far repository: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arne/far-progs.git The stream generated by btrfs send is generated in a way to be easily receivable by any other filesystem (destination fs' limitations apply). Thus, we came up with the term Filesystem Agnostic Replication. In my opinion, one of the next steps would be getting the logic used in btrfs receive into a generic far lib, which itself would link against libbtrfs to take the btrfs part from there. So, "btrfs receive" on the command line would become a stub calling something in the yet to create far lib, which itself would call hooks back to libbtrfs. I have no plan ready how to build btrfs progs if we're doing such a shift, that would have to be sorted out. My goal is to get everything that could be shared with other filesystems out of btrfs-progs into a far lib, and the send-test sent here definitely falls into that category; plus: it already exists outside btrfs-progs, unless I'm missing something. Thanks! -Jan > [snip] -- 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
