On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Richard Pieri <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/3/2012 9:20 AM, Gordon Ross wrote: >> >> Well, there's ZFS, which offers snapshots (pretty much like versions). > > > Not even close. > > VMS and RT-11 file versioning is simple: every time you save a new copy of a > file the old version gets an incrementing number. So you'll see FOO.TXT, > FOO.TXT;1, FOO.TXT;2, FOO.TXT;3 and so forth when you do a directory > listing. ZFS snapshots aren't at all like this.
No, but combined with an auto-snapshot service, I'd call it "close". You would not get a new version on every file change, but one can make snapshots pretty frequently, i.e. every few minutes. Anyway, probably getting off topic here. Sorry. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
