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Project description |
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Archfs is a filesystem that displays rdiff-backup archives in a |
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user-friendly fashion. It is built using FUSE library, that makes |
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possible creating filesystems in userspace. This particular filesystem |
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analyzes given single or multiple rdiff-backup archives and allows to |
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browse its contents. |
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Project status |
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Filesystem is already fully operational and provides nearly all |
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features, that were described in application form. It can be already |
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used to what it has been designed for. |
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I have resigned from one feature, which is data structures that uses |
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very little memory and retrieves all information from archive. As |
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responsiveness if much more important than saving some memory, this |
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was not very reasonable feature. Instead I have introduced another |
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one, that had been proposed in one of the comments under application |
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form for another distribution. The main idea is to present data from |
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the last increment done by rdiff-backup and allow user to browse |
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through versions of a certain file. |
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For the rest of the SoC time I will try to make it possible to run |
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filesystem on different architectures, make it possible to be added to |
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Gentoo distribution and provide possibly high quality of software. |
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Timeline |
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10 VII - 16 VII - finishing all main features; basic tests; |
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17 VII - 31 VII - installation and using filesystem under different |
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architectures; |
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1 VIII - 10 VIII - making it possible to add software to gentoo |
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distribution; presenting software to possible large number of users to |
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gather feedback |
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11 VIII - 20 VIII - excessive testing; using feedback gathered from |
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users for fixing bugs/adding smaller features; |
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Filip Gruszczyñski |
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