From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261556AbVF0S0m (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:26:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261555AbVF0S0l (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:26:41 -0400 Received: from 69-18-3-179.lisco.net ([69.18.3.179]:3342 "EHLO ninja.slaphack.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261569AbVF0SZT (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:25:19 -0400 Message-ID: <42C0448A.6070802@slaphack.com> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:25:14 -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> <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> <42BFA421.70506@slaphack.com> <200506271640.j5RGefRQ018912@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <200506271640.j5RGefRQ018912@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 02:00:49 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. > > > I was addressing the ability to deal with an arbitrary tree. By that definition, > a dmg, being a disk image and not a tree image, is *not* what you want.... Not exactly what I want, no. I was just trying to avoid the "people will never adopt a new archive format" argument by pointing out that a similar archive format was recently created and adopted. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBQsBEingHNmZLgCUhAQLTCw//XdrVgjaxvz9jzbiiSXVY60ItW5aechNV JdvHBf1edVOCHs6OLil/cioK4Pjsfw3pKU+aBLN+eroS0RDomQkrqcy2zmFQ5JW6 oFJQEnb/uA95AhFtdCrbOF3rKABfJNo0TjwsRBuKyiabpYTGjfTJ0gDaQGAtBoOb JmycKjZlJxhQgef9Q3LhG6UQaszCQrKX++pakKYaqOlughIpZ4O2AJTQWEq5ujdu N9GNtO2DGd2sumWdxNpb0KSISZIs6PmPVthPsHwOvD0E6533q9a2AJH49j8AcuOz 1FCU7oFtpm994lwvc4G7eubRMbJ5Xgyy+suqfhTbumOgKzzBw8cKgpxkXFlcyDte 4WyNUlyIqAn0n9GAEVHWSDZ+vqN3E1u+bgLWJq0PEJJSjv9dJzhtH1WPu1bDA2v2 s1qNQDQromF+VfE1QF/fhy1Ttpqh7xAjBmxdxi+g3OU6Vlij7/j0fpMurIELknI0 MRFmw63TzMnFB07Vwi00L7ZR8GKSWDT0/smYF8R1V7stRqrAxHKDlT6E526ESMv+ ALa2pa1lGKWyCSgBMwPC0Cm9FBcOfaqxi60/5KE+bQOQc3Yc+20HCH5BIIQcNgWq axOUO4txg9uz0GxfuvHWaa2tKE1vpbNO0Oy92QqdpCRmssyTNxs7EyhmdUB92Xar SZVTSjpEmv0= =WLzu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----