continuity

A transport-agnostic, filesystem metadata manifest system

This project is a staging area for experiments in providing transport agnostic metadata storage.

See opencontainers/runtime-spec#11 for more details.

Manifest Format

A continuity manifest encodes filesystem metadata in Protocol Buffers. Refer to proto/manifest.proto for more details.

Usage

Build:

$ make

Create a manifest (of this repo itself):

$ ./bin/continuity build . > /tmp/a.pb

Dump a manifest:

$ ./bin/continuity ls /tmp/a.pb
...
-rw-rw-r--      270 B   /.gitignore
-rw-rw-r--      88 B    /.mailmap
-rw-rw-r--      187 B   /.travis.yml
-rw-rw-r--      359 B   /AUTHORS
-rw-rw-r--      11 kB   /LICENSE
-rw-rw-r--      1.5 kB  /Makefile
...
-rw-rw-r--      986 B   /testutil_test.go
drwxrwxr-x      0 B     /version
-rw-rw-r--      478 B   /version/version.go

Verify a manifest:

$ ./bin/continuity verify . /tmp/a.pb

Break the directory and restore using the manifest:

$ chmod 777 Makefile
$ ./bin/continuity verify . /tmp/a.pb
2017/06/23 08:00:34 error verifying manifest: resource "/Makefile" has incorrect mode: -rwxrwxrwx != -rw-rw-r--
$ ./bin/continuity apply . /tmp/a.pb
$ stat -c %a Makefile
664
$ ./bin/continuity verify . /tmp/a.pb

Platforms

continuity primarily targets Linux. Continuity may compile for and work on other operating systems, but those platforms are not tested.

Contribution Guide

Building Proto Package

If you change the proto file you will need to rebuild the generated Go with go generate.

$ go generate ./proto

Project details

continuity is a containerd sub-project, licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. As a containerd sub-project, you will find the:

• Project governance,
• Maintainers,
• and Contributing guidelines

information in our containerd/project repository.