On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 02:36:08PM -0600, Sidney Cammeresi wrote: > On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 at 15.04.38 -0500, Todd M. Lewis wrote: > > > ... and how do you pick which one you're undeleting? I mean, I know > > > how to do this at the RPC layer - you just undelete by FID. But what > > > is the UI going to look like? > > > > Anybody remember VMS? When you replaced a file, it kept the old version > > around. If you didn't specify which version of a file you wanted, > > it would default to the current version, but you could just as easily > > specify the one, say, five versions back. I think you had some control > > over how many versions of a given file it would keep for you. "Deleting" > > a file just meant you didn't want to see version 0 anymore. I think > > DEC sold a lot of storage because of this...
You could put a limit on how many versions were kept for each file and you could arbitrarily delete any version, all versions or all versions older than xxx. I found it usefule a few times, but not often. ////jerry > > > > I don't remember what this looked like exactly, but I do remember the > > UI was so overwhelmingly upper-case that I didn't care for it at all. > > $ dir > > Directory DUA1:[SAC.TEST] > > FOO.TXT;5 FOO.TXT;4 FOO.TXT;3 FOO.TXT;2 > FOO.TXT;1 > > Total of 5 files. > $ purge/keep=3 foo.txt > $ set file/version_limit=3 foo.txt > $ dir > > Directory DUA1:[SAC.TEST] > > FOO.TXT;5 FOO.TXT;4 FOO.TXT;3 > > Total of 3 files. > $ edit foo.txt > $ dir > > Directory DUA1:[SAC.TEST] > > FOO.TXT;6 FOO.TXT;5 FOO.TXT;4 > > Total of 3 files. > $ del foo.txt; > $ dir > > Directory DUA1:[SAC.TEST] > > FOO.TXT;5 FOO.TXT;4 > > Total of 2 files. > $ del foo.txt;* > $ dir > %DIRECT-W-NOFILES, no files found > $ > > -- > Sidney CAMMERESI > http://www.cheesecake.org/sac/ > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > OpenAFS-info@openafs.org > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info