I don't mean to troll, but maybe your client should buy a Gluster support contract to support development of the features that are necessary for your project. Or better yet, maybe your client should get a team of skilled engineers before attempting to build a box.net clone. On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:03 PM, John Li <jli at jlisbz.com> wrote: > Yes. Here is the brief overview. > > My client is trying to build a box.net type of service. Since the > documents > are so important for the service and they have a team of not very skilled > engineers, how to prevent system admins to delete the file by accident is a > very specific requirement of the underling file system/service. GIT is not > considered the better option because there is no way to get back anything > if > someone just delete the files from OS level. > > Because it's still in very early stage of the project, there is not much > requirement yet. So I figure the purpose of the project may help you > understand where all the requirement is from. We are very open for ideas, > suggestions and what's the industry's best practice as well. > > Hope someone can point me to some better options. > > Thanks a lot in advance. > > -- > John > > > > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Tejas N. Bhise <tejas at gluster.com> > wrote: > > > Hi John, > > > > Why not use something like git ? Can you also be more clear about the > > requirements .. like do you want some command for the FS to mark new > > revisions ( and hence why not use something like git ) or is there some > > other way you want the revisions tracked ? > > > > It might be helpful if you can write some high level specs of what you > > want, the behaviour of the feature etc. Maybe there are others on the > > community who might have use for something similar and might want to > > contribute too. > > > > Regards, > > Tejas. > > > > ------------------------------ > > *From: *"John Li" <jli at jlisbz.com> > > *To: *"Tejas N. Bhise" <tejas at gluster.com> > > *Cc: *gluster-users at gluster.org > > *Sent: *Sunday, August 15, 2010 6:50:27 PM > > *Subject: *Re: Is there a way to prevent file deletion by > > accident? > > > > > > Hi Tejas, > > > > Thanks for your reply. > > > > Is there a quick way to bring the trash feature back? How much effort > will > > that take? And for the trash implementation, is this just simply mark the > > file as deleted but still keep the data so people can recover the > "deleted" > > file easily by undelete it until some one actually clean the trash or > > compact the database? > > > > rm alias will be hard to maintain on the client side so > > something embedded into the file system will be more preferable. > > > > Ideally the system can keep revisions of the files too. Will gluster > > provide this feature or are you aware of any system provide embedded > > revision control? > > > > Thanks a lot in advance for my amateur questions. > > > > > > -- > > John > > > > > > > > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Tejas N. Bhise <tejas at gluster.com > >wrote: > > > >> Hi John, > >> > >> We don't have such a feature. Would you like to elaborate if you need > this > >> just as an alternative to aliasing rm on the shell or do you want to put > >> this to use in some different scenerio - like a trash folder. > >> > >> We do have some trash folder functionality, but its old and not > supported > >> right now as not many found a good use for it since. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Tejas. > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "John Li" <jli at jlisbz.com> > >> To: gluster-users at gluster.org > >> Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 10:02:38 AM > >> Subject: Is there a way to prevent file deletion by > >> accident? > >> > >> Hi list, > >> > >> Is there any feature in the file system which can help to prevent from > >> file > >> deletion by accident? > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > >> -- > >> John > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Gluster-users mailing list > >> Gluster-users at gluster.org > >> http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > -- Rob Terhaar // Owner Atlantic Dynamic LLC // (718) 301 9757
