On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Bernie Innocenti <ber...@codewiz.org> wrote: > Yes, this is true. Basic IPv4 setup and swapping a broken network card > currently require too much command line wizardry. This is probably due > to lack of time to develop a nicer interface, not a sadistic design > choice.
You are underestimating my love of the Marquis. :-) I have a (good) plan for a UI-driven configuration for IPv4, xs-swapnics and a few other "popular" needs, while keeping cli/scriptable options. As you say, time has not been my friend lately. >> Incremental, or differential backups could be made if the datastore >> treated the files differently, I'm sorry if I hurt some >> suceptibilities, but is the truth, there's no simple way to back up >> _just the data_ from the journal, you back it all or nothing, because >> _part of it_ is useless. > > Yes, but metadata consists of very tiny files compared to actual data > files, which is often multimedia content. The current (0.84) datastore is very straightforward to backup and restore. And rsync friendly. cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
