On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Anthony Toole <arto...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Darren, > > Are you aware that there is already a rdiff-backup FUSE plugin? > > http://code.google.com/p/archfs/
I had no idea! This is excellent, I'll have a look and see how it does. Thanks for the link - I'm glad I posted early ;-) > > Cheers, > Anthony > >> I'm currently working on the early stages of a fuse filesystem for >> rdiff-backup repositories. As I look through the rdiff-backup code I >> noticed that it is written around the command line interface >> (unsurprisingly). As I would like to use the rdiff-backup python >> packages directly, rather than forking a subprocess each time the fuse >> fs needs data, I wanted to get the developers' thoughts on the API of >> rdiff-backup. Are the rdiff-backup packages used by rdiff-backup's >> Main.py likely to remain more or less stable, or should I expect a lot >> of churn in how they are implemented? >> >> While tinkering with generating listings (for 'ls') I found it would >> be a lot more efficient to be able to do a non-recursive >> restore.ListAtTime(). Specifically in >> MirrorStruct.get_rorp_iter_from_rf(). For example something like: >> >> def get_rorp_iter_from_rt(self, rf, recurse=True): >> >> would do the trick and requires no other changes to rdiff-backup. >> Perhaps the recurse option should be available higher up the stack as >> well, perhaps in restore.ListAtTime() itself, but the idea is the >> same. Would the developers be amenable to such a change? I'm sure I'll >> run into several more similar sorts of tweaks that would make the >> rdiff-backup packages more usable as a general purpose rdiff-backup >> repository access library, and I wanted to get a feel for how likely >> it will be for such changes to make it into rdiff-backup proper. >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> Darren Hart > -- Darren Hart _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
