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by chungy
Mon Aug 15, 2016 8:26 am
Forum: wimlib discussion
Topic: Suggestion: merge capture and append into functionally identical commands
Replies: 12
Views: 20904

Re: Suggestion: merge capture and append into functionally identical commands

I don't believe a prompt is a good idea. None of the other wimlib-imagex commands use one, and I do agree that they can be annoying, in addition to harming the possible use of scripts. Exiting with an error code and a stderr message about not overwriting the WIM file should be sufficient (now, stand...
by chungy
Sun Aug 14, 2016 7:56 am
Forum: wimlib discussion
Topic: Suggestion: merge capture and append into functionally identical commands
Replies: 12
Views: 20904

Re: Suggestion: merge capture and append into functionally identical commands

I think changing it in a major version (eg, 1.10) is fair enough. Reading release notes for new software versions is always a good idea, after all. The more conservative approach would be appreciated too, but I don't think we should need a new parameter to wimappend in order to create a new WIM, it ...
by chungy
Fri Aug 12, 2016 11:38 pm
Forum: wimlib discussion
Topic: Suggestion: merge capture and append into functionally identical commands
Replies: 12
Views: 20904

Suggestion: merge capture and append into functionally identical commands

capture and append are already very similar, but you must use capture to create a WIM first, and must use append to add images, instead of overwriting the existing file. The latter trips me up at times (thankfully I've not been without backups/snapshots to restore the old WIM file or data), where I ...
by chungy
Sat Aug 06, 2016 6:50 am
Forum: wimlib discussion
Topic: wimlib can't handle case sensitive names on Windows 10
Replies: 7
Views: 12696

Re: wimlib can't handle case sensitive names on Windows 10

Thanks, just did another small test. capture works properly with obcaseinsensitive=0, all the case variations are stored as their proper types and contents. apply is still an issue, but it'll be good if that can change in the future.
by chungy
Sat Aug 06, 2016 1:08 am
Forum: wimlib discussion
Topic: wimlib can't handle case sensitive names on Windows 10
Replies: 7
Views: 12696

Re: wimlib can't handle case sensitive names on Windows 10

They can be read by Win32 processes, if obcaseinsensitive is set to 0. Cygwin is capable of reading through it, as an example. I'm thinking wimlib might be able to use case-sensitivity assuming the registry flag is set. It's unfortunate that lxss doesn't obey the normal rules and is always case-sens...
by chungy
Fri Aug 05, 2016 11:30 pm
Forum: wimlib discussion
Topic: wimlib can't handle case sensitive names on Windows 10
Replies: 7
Views: 12696

Re: wimlib can't handle case sensitive names on Windows 10

Looking at how lxss is implemented, this might be tricky. I assumed that it set obcaseinsensitive to 0 as described in the Cygwin documentation -- it allows Win32 processes (such as Cygwin) to access/create files with case sensitivity This doesn't appear to be true on Windows 10 with the Subsystem f...
by chungy
Fri Aug 05, 2016 8:32 pm
Forum: wimlib discussion
Topic: wimlib can't handle case sensitive names on Windows 10
Replies: 7
Views: 12696

wimlib can't handle case sensitive names on Windows 10

The recent Windows 10 update includes the Windows Subsystem for Linux, and by installing it, the default image contains names that differ only in file case (see lxss/rootfs/usr/share/terminfo for example). wimcapture on Windows runs without any apparent error, but will only capture the upper-case ve...
by chungy
Tue Feb 16, 2016 1:26 am
Forum: wimlib discussion
Topic: Is it possiable to capture FAT/FAT32 filesystem with file attributes?
Replies: 8
Views: 14199

Re: Is it possiable to capture FAT/FAT32 filesystem with file attributes?

Thanks for the insight. I hadn't even thought of the short names issue. I went back and compared the Windows 95 status between the original install and the re-applied image, mounting them both with "-t msdos" so only the short names are visible in the VFS. Indeed, a few of the short names ...
by chungy
Mon Feb 15, 2016 3:49 am
Forum: wimlib discussion
Topic: Is it possiable to capture FAT/FAT32 filesystem with file attributes?
Replies: 8
Views: 14199

Re: Is it possiable to capture FAT/FAT32 filesystem with file attributes?

I think it'd be nice if this was merged into the master branch. There's no really good way to backup FAT with metadata from Linux[1], except for partclone... which has issues all on its own like no deduplication for multiple images and basically being just a direct block copy of the volume minus the...
by chungy
Mon Feb 15, 2016 3:41 am
Forum: wimlib discussion
Topic: Currently used files backup on Linux. Code 47.
Replies: 2
Views: 7317

Re: Currently used files backup on Linux. Code 47.

If you can make a snapshot (eg, with LVM, btrfs, ZFS...), run the backup from the snapshot instead :)