From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261851AbVF0Gby (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2005 02:31:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261859AbVF0Gbw (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2005 02:31:52 -0400 Received: from 69-18-3-179.lisco.net ([69.18.3.179]:62473 "EHLO ninja.slaphack.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261851AbVF0G1e (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2005 02:27:34 -0400 Message-ID: <42BF9C4D.3080800@slaphack.com> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 01:27:25 -0500 From: David Masover User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050325) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: Lincoln Dale , Gregory Maxwell , Hans Reiser , Horst von Brand , Jeff Garzik , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ReiserFS List Subject: Re: reiser4 plugins References: <200506240241.j5O2f1eb005609@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <42BCD93B.7030608@slaphack.com> <200506251420.j5PEKce4006891@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <42BDA377.6070303@slaphack.com> <200506252031.j5PKVb4Y004482@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <42BDC422.6020401@namesys.com> <42BE3645.4070806@cisco.com> <42BE563D.4000402@cisco.com> <42BE5DB6.8040103@slaphack.com> <200506261816.j5QIGMdI010142@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <42BF08CF.2020703@slaphack.com> <200506262105.j5QL5kdR018609@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <42BF2DC4.8030901@slaphack.com> <200506270040.j5R0eUNA030632@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <42BF667C.50606@slaphack.com> <200506270423.j5R4Np9n004510@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <42BF8F42.7030308@slaphack.com> <200506270541.j5R5fULX007282@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <42BF9562.4090602@slaphack.com> <200506270612.j5R6CZGX008462@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <200506270612.j5R6CZGX008462@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 00:57:54 CDT, David Masover said: > > >>In one of three possible settings for the imaginary zipfile plugin, yes. >> But if we're talking about a kernel source tree, how many of us >>actually build zipfiles/tarballs of their kernel source trees, rather >>than unpack existing ones? > > > I dunno. I'll often build a tarball of "-mm plus local patches" known to > be working at the moment, precisely so I can just untar that as a known good > base for the next kernel-hackfest, rather than untar Linus's tree, apply all > of the -mm patch, then all my local patches again... What you really want is a copy-on-write tree, or a simpe cp. Or are you that short on space that you need compression? Speaking of which, I know copy-on-write files are planned. What about whole trees? But, short of that, you can always do a poor man's copy-on-write with "cp -al" or "cp -as", assuming you remember to copy when you write... > And even if I'm not *that* ambitious, I'll at least tar up a clean -mm tree > to use as a base. :) I just keep a -mm patch around and the original vanilla tarball, but to each his own. > And even if I didn't do that, you *do* have to do something when the disk > gets backed up. You *do* intend for sensible things to happen then, right? ;) I back up with rsync, actually. Speaking of backup, that's another nice place for a plugin. Imagine a dump that didn't have to be of the entire FS, but rather an arbitrary tree... That might be a nice new archive format. I know Apple already uses something like this for their dmg packages. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBQr+cTXgHNmZLgCUhAQIvvxAAk70+cz4yOZaMX6TDIuUWNsPjqM890FMa jpNE5I2K3ZV91yJFAMdSZW1fQSQakorJyt0DV6wnxu3EbIZV8ATeIkNgJsqcDxAD O6dZoIQnFZND90Fh3HdJb46DRZyml4NbeEKhQRzIAnuANIAa4+6it2aERcpbDNxE ijOiVVpjTkUEutI2uuCJTYSXOGDa+rI0Jmth/9VnPAb5r+wqUb49wUziaSslnZs5 Jt6UlIcXU/OymzhWe+9JM0gydP+V2nP4N14oYoiXaqINPCA9OHV7BudClkKDeCyv bYXyRfjmuiDNoOel6ZfURqUFR2GK/dPqI1PBV6Vc4UMsUqIKkGLAuQ5rU0csb39f eS+6Dp8DJ7tOvQp73x1KTMJWP0lha1VRAj8s3SwdCp0Xar8YHymfCDjHvx/iJe50 rY5aZfWXGCzVmbKVETE8ACWeF5bgpnzwMDwU2RlaWhV/1yIZSOttuJFWMHNG4Rns ajUrRsV9cmmngIJBMcM6XaZD9eRsJ9gb+E9POpsFbo6OwhS0IpRlzu/AGGoEiHSW ZGNBoSDuLDluHP1jiXrnM7ONcFPEe2opUD7ltgSkYPKpya9C7lEfsEBzXh5Gqc5X Iw8P0Md7U6rjCJYGb0pwnJQa0MYMimXq3hOTVsLdoj4A1Nn0EVntHzpB/QTe4UX2 NjMlwpPIXkU= =fqm7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----