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Date:      Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:18:24 -0700
From:      Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Tar output mode for installworld
Message-ID:  <469B8C40.9020603@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <469B23FE.8060608@infracaninophile.co.uk>
References:  <46992FFF.7010906@kientzle.com>	<20070714223853.GF16579@britannica.bec.de>	<469992CA.6000104@freebsd.org>	<4699BE75.2090808@freebsd.org>	<20070715133016.GA53853@psconsult.nl> <469A6B73.1030004@freebsd.org> <469B23FE.8060608@infracaninophile.co.uk>

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> Being able to record a series of incremental changes in a filesystem
> hierarchy, and then roll them back as required.  That would be
> exceedingly useful, and I think your 'ntree' format has virtually
> everything necessary to do that.  The most obvious missing bit I can
> see is creating a backup of a file before overwriting it with
> different content.

Is this something that requires changes to the specification
file format, or just a feature of the tool that uses the
specification file?

If the former, what do you envision would be required?

Tim Kientzle



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