On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 06:13:05AM -0500, Charles Duffy wrote:
Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> FTP is widely supported and well understood, and the servers are old,
> small, self-contained code. I really think it's better for this, and
> not just because I once wrote an FTP server ...
>
Just to weigh in -- my only concern with FTP is that it's limited in
what metadata it will transport. ccgfs, for instance, supports full
POSIX ACLs and xattrs. Certainly, that's overkill for the common use
cases here -- but maybe something to keep in mind.
In addition to Dan's reply, as long as 'tar' supports it, you should
be able to upload it using the 'tar-in' or 'tgz-in' commands:
http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/guestfs.3.html#guestfs_tgz_in
I have also added support for cramfs & squashfs to the appliance,
which is yet another way to 'get stuff inside' without needing time-
consuming uploads.
Rich.