On Wed, 27 May 2015 14:31:28 +0200 Stef Bon <stefbon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This program, which I've called fuse-backup, creates backup subvolumes > and snapshots by calling an extrenal script, which does something > like: > > btrfs subvolume snapshot -r %PathToBackup%/ %PathToSnapshot% > > This works perfect, but are there any plans to do this with a library? If this works perfect, then what is the rationale for needing a library? Do you see a clear reason aside from any vague "it's supposed to be that way". In the Unix land it is perfectly normal for programs to call other self-contained programs to do their self-contained jobs: http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html#id2877684 Not everything must to be a library linked into your main executable, some separation and calling external programs to do stuff such as mkfs or snapshot management seems perfectly fine and even better from the debug-ability standpoint. -- With respect, Roman
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