Re: [Libguestfs] rsync support
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:59:50PM -0700, Chris Willmore wrote:
Has an rsync addition to libguestfs been considered? It would be
great to have when copying the contents of a filesystem to a disk of
a different filesystem. It could also be used to keep portions of
cloned machines in sync. For example, I'm porting VirtualBox images
to Xen. I sometimes make change to the source image that I would
like to easily propagate to the Xen copy. DD is sometimes a bit too
low-level.
I think this makes sense. As a matter of getting changes in
libguestfs it's better to propose patches and APIs. You could test
this out by adding rsync to appliance/packagelist.in, and then adding
some APIs to libguestfs (see [0] and example [1]). Post the patches
here and we can review them.
Rich.
[0] http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#extending_libguestfs
[1]
http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=commitdiff;h=4ffa2d6798f7a2bf0...
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