Jack Stone wrote: >> >> Later, I discovered what I think are superior alternatives: RCS-style >> version management on top of the filesystem, and automatic versioning >> based on time instead of count of "modifications." For example, make a >> copy of every changed file every hour and keep it for a day and keep one >> of those for a week, and keep one of those for a month, etc. This works >> even without snapshot technology and even without sub-file deltas. But of >> course, it's better with those. > > From what I can see this seems to be the consesus (and it sound very > sensible to me). > > The question remains is where to implement versioning: directly in > individual filesystems or in the vfs code so all filesystems can use it? > More likely a shim filesystem on top would be a better option. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
