Snapshots and Nautilus support

Rakesh Pandit rakesh.pandit at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 20:12:36 UTC 2009


Hi list,

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:32:16 -0500, Mathias wrote:
>On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 12:01 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Opensolaris time slide integrates filesystem snapshots in a pretty neat
>> way with Nautilus. Is anyone from the desktop team looking into
>> writing/porting it based on btrfs?
>>
>> Essentially, there is a nautilus extension in Python that can be easily
>> ported and a patch for adding a time slider and restore button. A stand
>> alone app takes care of setting some preferences.

>None of us is currently working on that. But it sounds like a nice
>project for someone who wants to dive in and work on something cool.

I had been trying to play with btrfs on rawhide some time back for
same functionality. At that moment (0.17) or even now
btrfs-progs(0.18-3) was bit unstable to work on.

Will give it a try to port the app and work on nautilus patch to
integrate this functionality.

--
Regards,
Rakesh Pandit




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