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hello friends, thanks pieter for your effort. i could run the daemon. but how could i mount a filesystem on this daemon? best regards, alex Pieter Wuille wrote: > Hello BackupPC devs, > > i've already sent a mail to the users list about this as well, but since > i see there's been discussion about it here too, i'll mention it here also. > > I've been rewriting (allmost all) parts of Stephen Day's fuse filesystem, to > add some features and improve performance. You can find the latest version > here: > > https://svn.ulyssis.org/repos/sipa/backuppc-fuse/backuppcfs.pl > > Some changes: > > * statefulness > * The directory tree is internally cached, which speeds up browsing > significantly. It also allows a more dynamic approach to the > structure (merging of shares, see further), and re-using dirattrib > data (not re-reading it for every file in the same directory). > Directory entries in this cache will expire after a certain amount of > time, or when errors occur or non-existing entries are requested (cd'ing > into a directory that doesn't exist yet in the cache works) > * File handles are remembered together with their file position, > and reused. This means sequential reads are very fast. > As an answer to Jon Craig's mail on Jan 29th: the FUSE documentation > states that there will be one "release" call per "open" call, so it > is very simple to keep track of the amount of open files, and so far > tests of slightly contrived situations involving multiple processes > reading from the same file at the same time, show that indeed all > file descriptors are closed at the right time. > * support for character devices/block devices/symlinks/hardlinks > * although the linkcount of hardlinked files is still shown as 1 > * support for XferMethods that don't set filetype bits in the mode (like tar) > * tested for tar, rsync and rsyncd > * share merging > * all shares for a given host/archive are merged into a single directory > structure. Eg. the contents of a '/' share will be shown directly under > <mountpoint>/<host>/<archivenum>/, while the contents of a '/usr/local' > share will be found onder <mp>/<host>/<archivenum>/usr/local. > (Stephen Day's version didn't seem to support /'es inside sharenames - > except for '/' itself). In case directory names collide, they will be > merged too (eg. having a '/', a '/usr' and '/usr/local' share will work > as expected). > * support for empty files > * correct showing of incremental backups > * daemonization (though that suppresses error output, use -f to keep it in > forground) > * correct linkcount for directories (2 + # of subdirs) > * a latest/oldest symlink to first/last backup for a given host - idea taken > from Alex Harrington's version > * some command-line options > > After some tests/bugfixes and suggestions from Jeffrey on the users list, i > think it is pretty stable and usable now. I'd appreciate it if it could be > tested in more setups (eg. smb shares, strange share/hostnames, other backuppc > versions (only tested on 3.1), non-linux systems, ...). Of course, bug > reports, > questions, suggestions or feature requests are welcome. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iJwEAQECAAYFAkotEJgACgkQ2nA3WyrfyeNv8AQAuS8C/4VmqM0ClBPyYPKBBc9o U4qxc70pzLuvQfi+cyycu9+ZpN/473ziCeUMkOiY44S70UAV3FX7BNsAOSCLV35/ oPcPbRpSCeGuawrvsiuTnaUWdva3srZg+7dM+qV3qi1vxy01O3+AJefgFanD4Q63 aZoqnJrtqx0byoR4f60= =OAfQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ BackupPC-devel mailing list BackupPC-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-devel Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
