On Thursday 12 January 2006 02:39 pm, you wrote:
> On Thursday 12 January 2006 01:14 pm, you wrote:
> > > I'm planning to use a delta techniques for versioning storage (delta
> > > compression). The versioning will be at the write level. The versions
> > > will be saved in a special directory under the filesystem. I think the
> > > hard part is the one related to detecting the changes (a COW it's a
> > > possible solution, but i think it's to expensive). I'm thinking a
> > > possible solution will be detecting the bytes changing in each write
> > > and archiving then as the difference. This introduce some problems
> > > like : 1-) What happens if the file shrinks?
> > > 2-) What happens if the file grows ?
> > >
> > > I will send another email with a solution to this problems.
> >
> > This will not be easy, I look forward to seeing your solution.
>
Well this is one of the interesting part of the projects. I will not start
from scratch, since there is previous work on this area (the delta file
system for example, although it's a little old).
