Re: help with btrfs send

Arne Jansen
2012-10-24T17:57:31Z

On 10/24/2012 06:53 PM, frantz.hacquard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don''t know if it''s the good place to ask my question.
> I''m a french student who studies IT.
> I''m working on a project with the btrfs filesystem on Gentoo 64
bits.
> I have to create snapshots and to compare the differences between them
> (new files, deleted files, modified files...).
> So i tried to use btrfs send -i old-snap new-snap.
> To make this command working i created my snapshots thanks to the -r
> option.
> However i only see on the standard output many weird characters but i
> don''t understand them.

If you want to dissect the contents, you can pull the tool fardump
from here:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arne/far-progs.git

''far'' is the name we''re going to give the stream
format.

-arne

> I know it''s still in developement but is it working ?
> I tried with kernel 3.6.2 and 3.7.0
>
> Thanks for help.
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