On 10/19/2012 09:58 PM, Matthew Ahrens wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Arne Jansen <sensi...@gmx.net > <mailto:sensi...@gmx.net>> wrote: > > We have finished a beta version of the feature. A webrev for it > can be found here: > > http://cr.illumos.org/~webrev/sensille/fits-send/ > > It adds a command 'zfs fits-send'. The resulting streams can > currently only be received on btrfs, but more receivers will > follow. > It would be great if anyone interested could give it some testing > and/or review. If there are no objections, I'll send a formal > webrev soon. > > > > Please don't bother changing libzfs (and proliferating the copypasta > there) -- do it like lzc_send(). >
ok. It would be easier though if zfs_send would also already use the new style. Is it in the pipeline already? > Likewise, zfs_ioc_fits_send should use the new-style API. See the > comment at the beginning of zfs_ioctl.c. > > I'm not a fan of the name "FITS" but I suppose somebody else already > named the format. If we are going to follow someone else's format > though, it at least needs to be well-documented. Where can we find the > documentation? > > FYI, #1 google hit for "FITS": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITS > #3 hit: http://code.google.com/p/fits/ > > Both have to do with file formats. The entire first page of google > results for "FITS format" and "FITS file format" are related to these > two formats. "FITS btrfs" didn't return anything specific to the file > format, either. It's not too late to change it, but I have a hard time coming up with some better name. Also, the format is still very new and I'm sure it'll need some adjustments. -arne > > --matt > > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
