On 13/10/12, Arne Jansen (sensille@gmx.net) wrote:

On 10/12/12 15:32, Arne Jansen wrote:

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The idea of the btrfs send stream format was to generate it in a way that
it is easy to receive on different platforms. Thus the proposed name FITS, for
Filesystem Incremental Backup Stream. We should also build the tools to
receive the stream on different platforms.

I meant to write 'Filesystem Incremental Transport Stream', but, as
Andrey Kuzmin pointed out, the name FITS is already taken. As the
'Backup' slipped in somehow, FIBS might be an alternative. Any
thoughts?

Perhaps "BTRFS Incremental Stream" or "Backup Incremental Stream" should
be considered, with the file extension ".bis".

The word "bis" is also, according to Wikipedia, "...a prefix of suffix
designating the second instance of a thing...", which seems largely
appropriate.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIS

Rory

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