From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261908AbVF0HCd (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2005 03:02:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261893AbVF0HCc (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2005 03:02:32 -0400 Received: from 69-18-3-179.lisco.net ([69.18.3.179]:42768 "EHLO ninja.slaphack.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261913AbVF0HA4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2005 03:00:56 -0400 Message-ID: <42BFA421.70506@slaphack.com> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 02:00:49 -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> <42BF9C4D.3080800@slaphack.com> <200506270643.j5R6hqRh009781@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <200506270643.j5R6hqRh009781@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 01:27:25 CDT, David Masover said: [...] >>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. > > > Hmm.. you mean like 'tar' or 'cpio' or 'pax' or 'rsync'? :) No, a dmg is an OS X program installer. It appears to be a disk image of sorts. So this is the backup idea in reverse. They even "optimize" (repack? defrag?) the hard drive after each update. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBQr+kIXgHNmZLgCUhAQKMbg/9GMCtXtlC76wYEvzALVQROXh5xTKHJg8q +sngIMVKfCPOwGVe62tUfrzGaQ0/t9FJ/p40yAzRrWHV7msJWwQZYjf918AA1Vmg IMmsbzFPH+3oRROSfwWcPB/MPG5n1YVfsaq09BUSFM7pasubGgEiFz3TA7gwRTh1 sOw/3J1mlhcxUUbQJrLPAe6e4u59h6MwUZVSdnF2D0Gnnxgwvl8ZemLVSqDaaMGs F7fHJWUd7pZO+d4h2c9AnFLQQL5TvJHDOWuHcGVHZbt/Vaz7F79TWWyC74MeDUA6 ErSGbrZ4fLnocP8zqmDkWJ9GnqE/w9HAhDC2vPtRqCl4z8Mbc/0e5FOxi3M+7WVH TXXBTKnBQG97DWEwneVRFndmhzP/rccnCYIlWhTugiATkStNkOKabTHVp2tpC7lB VP+NwBsMFoaS3vvKcYMF9709OglLRdGmHoju87UIvyLLUZ1fYvZ2+7WlEez0cqSh I0GTCq8gshagIAKhjR/vhVT0i20xyrS/oJEIYdtXz470E2S9tf1NvIwlokO153wL 6PaAN2okmC+YLG+lMeHDZs2lKDfmPzOtbzxR8XyEQHLxsbdWJBnm9B6Epa02iiE1 wZ8feMMsAOjzb/8iiZFqMRROe+j9m+beDLMdc3fYVrNQM72EyPAMw1zUr1GgXeVA USJDqNWK5S4= =BpTW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----