On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 22:44 -0800, Hans Reiser wrote: > Hans Reiser wrote: > > I am skeptical that having it occur with every > >write is desirable actually. > > > > > Consider the case where you type cat file1 >> file2. This will produce > a version of file2 for every 4k that is in file1, because (well I didn't > look at the bash source, but I would guess) it appends in 4k incremental > writes rather than one big write. Versioning on file close makes more > sense [snip]
Not that my opinion means anything. :-) But I agree with Hans that file close is the place to create the new version. The plugin should track the writes (and mmap flushes) between file open and close, then on file close it can process everything into a reverse binary diff to save permanently. -- Jonathan Briggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eSoft, Inc.
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