Kyle Moffett wrote: > On Jun 18, 2007, at 13:56:05, Bryan Henderson wrote: >>> The question remains is where to implement versioning: directly in >>> individual filesystems or in the vfs code so all filesystems can >>> use it? >> >> Or not in the kernel at all. I've been doing versioning of the >> types I described for years with user space code and I don't >> remember feeling that I compromised in order not to involve the >> kernel. >> >> Of course, if you want to do it with snapshots and COW, you'll have >> to ask where in the kernel to put that, but that's not a file >> versioning question; it's the larger snapshot question. > > What I think would be particularly interesting in this domain is > something similar in concept to GIT, except in a file-system [cut] How it relates to ext3cow versioning (snapshotting) filesystem, for example? ext3cow assumes linear history, which simplifies things a bit. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - 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
