On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 07:03 +0900, sqweek wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Roman Shaposhnik <r...@sun.com> wrote: > > Personally, though, I'd say that the usefulness of the > > dump would be greatly improved > > if one had an ability to do ad-hoc archival snapshots AND assigning tags, > > not only dates to them. > > Tags don't make that much sense in this context since the dump is for > the whole filesystem, not a specific project.
Well, as Charles pointed out -- in case of Plan9 development the whole system is the entire project. > However, tagging a source tree can be done with a simple dircp. > It's not as though the duplicate data costs you anything when you're > backed by venti. Hm. Good point. Although timing wise, I'd expect dircp to be dreadfully slow. Well, I guess I really got spoiled by ZFS's ability to do things like $ zfs snapshot pool/projects/f...@yourtextgoeshere and especially: $ zfs clone pool/projects/f...@yourtextgoeshere pool/projects/branch I'm still trying to figure out what kind of approximation of the above would be possible with fossil/venti. Thanks, Roman.