1# continuity 2 3[](https://godoc.org/github.com/containerd/continuity) 4[](https://travis-ci.org/containerd/continuity) 5 6A transport-agnostic, filesystem metadata manifest system 7 8This project is a staging area for experiments in providing transport agnostic 9metadata storage. 10 11Please see https://github.com/opencontainers/specs/issues/11 for more details. 12 13## Manifest Format 14 15A continuity manifest encodes filesystem metadata in Protocol Buffers. 16Please refer to [proto/manifest.proto](proto/manifest.proto). 17 18## Usage 19 20Build: 21 22```console 23$ make 24``` 25 26Create a manifest (of this repo itself): 27 28```console 29$ ./bin/continuity build . > /tmp/a.pb 30``` 31 32Dump a manifest: 33 34```console 35$ ./bin/continuity ls /tmp/a.pb 36... 37-rw-rw-r-- 270 B /.gitignore 38-rw-rw-r-- 88 B /.mailmap 39-rw-rw-r-- 187 B /.travis.yml 40-rw-rw-r-- 359 B /AUTHORS 41-rw-rw-r-- 11 kB /LICENSE 42-rw-rw-r-- 1.5 kB /Makefile 43... 44-rw-rw-r-- 986 B /testutil_test.go 45drwxrwxr-x 0 B /version 46-rw-rw-r-- 478 B /version/version.go 47``` 48 49Verify a manifest: 50 51```console 52$ ./bin/continuity verify . /tmp/a.pb 53``` 54 55Break the directory and restore using the manifest: 56```console 57$ chmod 777 Makefile 58$ ./bin/continuity verify . /tmp/a.pb 592017/06/23 08:00:34 error verifying manifest: resource "/Makefile" has incorrect mode: -rwxrwxrwx != -rw-rw-r-- 60$ ./bin/continuity apply . /tmp/a.pb 61$ stat -c %a Makefile 62664 63$ ./bin/continuity verify . /tmp/a.pb 64``` 65 66 67## Contribution Guide 68### Building Proto Package 69 70If you change the proto file you will need to rebuild the generated Go with `go generate`. 71 72```console 73$ go generate ./proto 74``` 75
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