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
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