In a message dated: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 11:07:21 EDT
Dave Cherkus said:
>The desigers of the Network Appliances WAFL file system built an
>intelligent file system for human (i.e. non-infallable) people. With
>it you can efficiently save snapshots of your directories on-line at
>fixed points in time as far back as you'd like (modulo disk space, but
>that's cheap these days). These snapshots can be mounted as file
>systems so they're as easy to use as the current file system itself.
>Typically a cron job is use to maintain snapshots from the last hour in
>fifteen minute increments, the last day in one hour increments, the
>last week in one day increments, etc. They fix the most common cases
>of files that are accidently deleted. It'd be cool if Linux offered
>this feature.
I'm quite familiar with this feature, and agree that it's nice (saved me a lot
of work on more than one occasion when inflicting pain upon he who committed
stupidity wasn't an option granted by management :)
I'd like to see this available for Linux too, but I see it as more of a tool
to use sparingly, else you end up with too many who don't think before acting,
and who no longer have to live with the responsibility of their actions.
But this is more of a philosophical debate on the sad state of our modern
societal failings as a whole than it is about linux, so I'll drop it :)
--
Seeya,
Paul
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I meet lots of interesting people that way."
Niall Kavanagh, 10 April, 2000
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