Re: Versioning file system

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From: Jack Stone
Date: Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 1:11 am

alan wrote:

One of the key points of the implementation would have to be the ability
to delete old revisions without affecting the subsequent revisions. This
would allow people to keep the number of revisions down.

Also if each revision is in effect a patch on the last revision it could
cut down the disk space required to store them, or if that takes to long
to read a file then have every tenth version (0,10,20,30...not the tenth
versions I know but easier to read) as a full version of the file which
all future versions are changed off.


I hadn't considered that but I did think that you could remove the old
revisions of a file at some configurable time after. This would allow
recovery in case of accidental deletion but should keep the disk space
usage down.


Possibly but if I use it to manage my entire system (ie as a package
manager) then the system would likely explode if I tryed to update or
remove a key package whilst the system was running. With the kernel
involved then the process could be much smoother.



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Versioning file system, Jack Stone, (Fri Jun 15, 3:23 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, H. Peter Anvin, (Fri Jun 15, 3:38 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, alan, (Fri Jun 15, 3:51 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Chris Snook, (Fri Jun 15, 3:52 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Kok, Auke, (Fri Jun 15, 3:57 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, H. Peter Anvin, (Fri Jun 15, 3:59 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, alan, (Fri Jun 15, 4:01 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, alan, (Fri Jun 15, 4:06 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Jack Stone, (Sat Jun 16, 1:11 am)
Re: Versioning file system, Jack Stone, (Sat Jun 16, 1:25 am)
Re: Versioning file system, Jeffrey V. Merkey, (Sat Jun 16, 2:46 am)
Re: Versioning file system, Jeffrey V. Merkey, (Sat Jun 16, 3:12 am)
Re: Versioning file system, Johannes Weiner, (Sat Jun 16, 4:20 am)
Re: Versioning file system, Graham Murray, (Sat Jun 16, 4:42 am)
Re: Versioning file system, Mark Williamson, (Sat Jun 16, 6:15 am)
Re: Versioning file system, Jörn, (Sat Jun 16, 7:53 am)
Re: Versioning file system, Jan Harkes, (Sat Jun 16, 9:49 am)
Re: Versioning file system, Jack Stone, (Sat Jun 16, 12:38 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Jeffrey V. Merkey, (Sat Jun 16, 12:57 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Jeffrey V. Merkey, (Sat Jun 16, 1:03 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Alan Cox, (Sat Jun 16, 1:08 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Jan Harkes, (Sat Jun 16, 1:39 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Jack Stone, (Sat Jun 16, 1:43 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Dale Amon, (Sat Jun 16, 2:06 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Jeffrey V. Merkey, (Sat Jun 16, 2:25 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Alan Cox, (Sat Jun 16, 3:17 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Jeffrey V. Merkey, (Sat Jun 16, 7:18 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Jeffrey V. Merkey, (Sat Jun 16, 7:39 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Dale Amon, (Sun Jun 17, 3:11 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Andreas Dilger, (Mon Jun 18, 2:45 am)
Re: Versioning file system, Jack Stone, (Mon Jun 18, 2:54 am)
Re: Versioning file system, Jörn, (Mon Jun 18, 3:13 am)
Re: Versioning file system, Theodore Tso, (Mon Jun 18, 7:01 am)
Re: Versioning file system, Chris Mason, (Mon Jun 18, 8:32 am)
Re: Versioning file system, alan, (Mon Jun 18, 9:16 am)
Re: Versioning file system, Theodore Tso, (Mon Jun 18, 10:29 am)
Re: Versioning file system, Jeremy Allison, (Mon Jun 18, 10:33 am)
Re: Versioning file system, H. Peter Anvin, (Mon Jun 18, 10:46 am)
Re: Versioning file system, Theodore Tso, (Mon Jun 18, 1:30 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, J. Bruce Fields, (Mon Jun 18, 1:50 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Bron Gondwana, (Mon Jun 18, 4:18 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Chris Snook, (Tue Jun 19, 11:03 am)
Re: Versioning file system, Jack Stone, (Tue Jun 19, 12:06 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Jun 19, 12:08 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Jack Stone, (Tue Jun 19, 12:12 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Jun 19, 12:15 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Jack Stone, (Tue Jun 19, 12:22 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Chris Snook, (Tue Jun 19, 1:03 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Jack Stone, (Tue Jun 19, 1:08 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Chris Snook, (Tue Jun 19, 1:10 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Jack Stone, (Tue Jun 19, 1:14 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Chris Snook, (Tue Jun 19, 1:15 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Jack Stone, (Tue Jun 19, 1:27 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Chris Snook, (Tue Jun 19, 1:31 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, John Stoffel, (Tue Jun 19, 1:34 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Jack Stone, (Tue Jun 19, 1:38 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Matthew Wilcox, (Tue Jun 19, 1:38 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Lennart Sorensen, (Tue Jun 19, 1:43 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, John Stoffel, (Tue Jun 19, 2:02 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Alan Cox, (Tue Jun 19, 2:50 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, david, (Tue Jun 19, 3:07 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Jun 19, 3:07 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Jun 19, 3:13 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Lennart Sorensen, (Tue Jun 19, 3:21 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Jan Harkes, (Tue Jun 19, 4:07 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Jun 19, 4:12 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Bryan Henderson, (Tue Jun 19, 4:35 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Trond Myklebust, (Tue Jun 19, 5:27 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Jun 19, 10:00 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, Ph. Marek, (Wed Jun 20, 1:05 am)
Re: Versioning file system, Bernd Petrovitsch, (Wed Jun 20, 1:34 am)
Re: Versioning file system, Bryan Henderson, (Wed Jun 20, 10:04 am)
Re: Versioning file system, H. Peter Anvin, (Wed Jun 20, 10:10 am)
Re: Versioning file system, Chris Snook, (Wed Jun 20, 10:33 am)
Re: Versioning file system, Erik Mouw, (Wed Jul 4, 10:32 am)
Re: Versioning file system, Theodore Tso, (Wed Jul 4, 1:47 pm)
Re: Versioning file system, John Stoffel, (Thu Jul 5, 6:57 am)
Re: Versioning file system, Chris Mason, (Thu Jul 5, 7:23 am)
Re: Versioning file system, Erik Mouw, (Thu Jul 5, 10:55 am)
Re: Versioning file system, Erik Mouw, (Thu Jul 5, 10:57 am)
Re: Versioning file system, Sorin Faibish, (Sat Sep 29, 10:44 am)