Module fs 

Reading and writing filesystem trees to/from disk.

This module provides functionality to read filesystem structures from disk into composefs tree representations and write them back, including handling of hardlinks, extended attributes, and repository integration.

Structs

FilesystemReader

Helper for reading filesystem trees from disk into composefs representation.

Functions

read_file

Read the contents of a file.

read_filesystem

Load a filesystem tree from the given path. A repository may be provided; if it is, then all files found in the filesystem are copied in.

set_file_contents 🔒

Attempt to use O_TMPFILE + rename to atomically set file contents. Will fall back to a non-atomic write if the target doesn’t support O_TMPFILE.

write_directory 🔒

write_directory_contents 🔒

write_leaf 🔒

write_to_path

Writes a directory tree from composefs representation to a filesystem path.