Re: reiser4 plugins

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[email protected] 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.

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