On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 01:59:45AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:57:34PM +0200, cpghost wrote:
> > Quite true!
> >
> > I see even more ambiguity here: What about a versioned file pointed
> > to by hard links from two versioned directories?
>
> The more I think about it,
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:33:23AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:57:34 +0200, cpghost wrote:
> > Yep, you're right. I thought about a way to extend the API in a
> > backwards compatible way, but that's not as easy or straight
> > forward as it seems. In fact, it opens a whole c
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:57:34PM +0200, cpghost wrote:
> Quite true!
>
> I see even more ambiguity here: What about a versioned file pointed
> to by hard links from two versioned directories?
The more I think about it, the more problems I can see. Look e.g. at
symbolic links. Or looking from th
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:57:34 +0200, cpghost wrote:
> Yep, you're right. I thought about a way to extend the API in a
> backwards compatible way, but that's not as easy or straight
> forward as it seems. In fact, it opens a whole can of worms.
>
> If the versioned file system isn't also POSIX comp
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:26:50PM +0200, Morten Grunnet Buhl wrote:
> * cpghost [2009-06-24 17:04 +0200]:
> > Hi,
> >
> > is there anybody working on a versioning file system for FreeBSD
> > right now?
>
> - I don't know how fare along hammerfs is in being ported to FreeBSD.
> But from what I
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 09:11:25PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> > Yes, that's one possibility. But just like Subversion (which I'm
> > using extensively here), it's not really transparent.
>
> What is? If you have to extend the API like you propose below, all
> programs that want to use that featu
* cpghost [2009-06-24 17:04 +0200]:
> Hi,
>
> is there anybody working on a versioning file system for FreeBSD
> right now?
- I don't know how fare along hammerfs is in being ported to FreeBSD.
But from what I have heard, feature-wise, it might be something that
meets your needs.
An altern
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:11:25 +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> VMS had a filesystem that uses versioning:
> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Files-11]
That's the first thing that came into my mind when reading this
message. See LOGIN.COM;1 and then rm -rf /*.*;* :-)
But it's not "had", it's "has", beca
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 07:59:18PM +0200, cpghost wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 06:37:55PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 05:04:22PM +0200, cpghost wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > is there anybody working on a versioning file system for FreeBSD
> > > right now?
> >
> > > I
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 07:59:18PM +0200, cpghost wrote:
> open(2) could open a file at an earlier revision:
>
> FILE *filep;
s/FILE */int /;
-cpghost.
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On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 06:37:55PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 05:04:22PM +0200, cpghost wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > is there anybody working on a versioning file system for FreeBSD
> > right now?
>
> > I don't care if it is native or a layer, geom-ified, fuse-based,
> > or ev
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 05:04:22PM +0200, cpghost wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there anybody working on a versioning file system for FreeBSD
> right now?
> I don't care if it is native or a layer, geom-ified, fuse-based,
> or even if it uses subversion as its backend, as long as it
> provides some kind of
David Bear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> years ago I used a VAX VMS system that automatically saved file
> versions whenever a file name was clobbered.
Among the many clever features of VMS.
> I've seen wrapper scripts for vi to accomplish the same but it would
> be nice if someone had actuall
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From: "Kenneth Culver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "David Bear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: versioning file system
> > years ago I used a VAX VMS system that au
> years ago I used a VAX VMS system that automatically saved file versions
> whenever a file name was clobbered.
>
> I've seen wrapper scripts for vi to accomplish the same but it would be
> nice if someone had actually implemented something at the file system
> level to do this. Anyone know of an
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