On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 01:55:26PM +0100, Mukund wrote: > | BTW, Microsoft Windows registry is already basically an extensible file > | system within a file. A high end business product that I use called also > | SAS has something similar. I would guess there are others out there as > | well. > > You brought a strange thought to mind. > > Subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/) implements a versioned FS > using a Sleepycat's Berkeley DB database. It has a full library > implementation which any application could use. Well, using a database as container might be a good idea. I'm not quite familiar with Berkeley DB but it might be useful as a backend. > Imagine that images could be revisioned. Subversion also uses a hybrid > delta algorithm for binary diffs. Worst case: I make my black image white. That's the point where a binary diff will only waste processing power. Bye, Tino. -- * LINUX - Where do you want to be tomorrow? * http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/
