consider merging with others

restic has a similar project, called [fakedatafs](https://github.com/restic/fakedatafs), with similar goals. fakedatafs works as a FUSE filesystem to provide a dataset to benchmark backup software.

obnam has its own tool to generate backup data called... [genbackupdata](http://liw.fi/genbackupdata/). the design is similar to borg's, but like fakedatafs, it is also deterministic.

i was wondering if any thought has been given to reviewing or even merging with those projects instead of maintaining (now at least) 3 different projects in parallel?

if we want a standardized test suite for backup software, it seems to me we should aim at standardizing the corpus generation as well! :)

a similar issue was opened against the restic project in https://github.com/restic/fakedatafs/issues/3

Esamina il progetto backupdata esistente insieme a fakedatafs di restic e genbackupdata di obnam, iniziando dall’issue collegata di fakedatafs per la discussione correlata. Determina se i loro obiettivi e design possono essere combinati o standardizzati; il lavoro è completato quando il progetto dispone di una decisione e di un ambito documentati.

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