On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 08:00:36AM -0600, Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:41:56PM +0200, Alexander Block wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Arne Jansen <sensi...@gmx.net> wrote:
> > > On 04.07.2012 15:39, Alexander Block wrote:
> > >> Hello all,
> > >>
> > >> This is the user space side of btrfs send/receive.
> > >>
> > >> You can apply them manually or use my git repo:
> > >>
> > >> git://github.com/ablock84/btrfs-progs.git (branch send)
> > >>
> > >> The branch is based on Hugo's integration-20120605 branch. I had to add 
> > >> a temporary
> > >> commit to fix a bug introduced in one of the strncpy/overflow patches 
> > >> that got into
> > >> btrfs-progs. This fix is not part of the btrfs send/receive patchset, 
> > >> but you'll
> > >> probably need it if you want to base on the integration branch. I hope 
> > >> this is not
> > >> required in the future when a new integration branch comes out.
> > >>
> > >> Example usage:
> > >>
> > >> Multiple snapshots at once:
> > >> btrfs send /mnt/snap[123] > snap123.btrfs
> > >
> > > a) Do we really want a single token command here, not
> > > btrfs filesystem send or subvol send?
> > In my opinion the single token is easier to type and remember. But if
> > enough speaks for normal subcommands this can be changed (but by
> > someone else as I'm running out of time).
> 
>    Since everything else is two commands, yes, I think we need it for
> consistency. (And, since it's a publically-visible interface, for
> acceptance of the patches -- we don't want to be changing the way the
> commands work after the fact).

I've been sending and receiving while getting this code integrated.
These are really first class operations, and I'd prefer they not be
sub-commands.

I'm afraid there isn't a lot of logic here, just what feels good to
type.

-chris
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