Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-16 Thread Jeffrey V. Merkey
This already exists -- it just not open sourced, and you could spend years trying to create it. Trust me, once you start dealing with the distributed issues with this, its gets very complex. I am not meaning to discourage you, but there are patents already filed on this on Linux.So you

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-16 Thread Jeffrey V. Merkey
Jeffrey V. Merkey wrote: This already exists -- it just not open sourced, and you could spend years trying to create it. Trust me, once you start dealing with the distributed issues with this, its gets very complex. I am not meaning to discourage you, but there are patents already filed

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-16 Thread Jeffrey V. Merkey
Alan Cox wrote: http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/fetch.jsp?LANG=ENGDBSELECT=PCTSERVER_TYPE=19SORT=1211506-KEYTYPE_FIELD=256IDB=0IDOC=1205953C=10ELEMENT_SET=IA,WO,TTL-ENRESULT=1TOTAL=3START=1DISP=25FORM=SEP-0/HITNUM,B-ENG,DP,MC,PA,ABSUM-ENGSEARCH_IA=US2005045566QUERY=%28IN%2fmerkey%29+ The last one

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-16 Thread Jeffrey V. Merkey
Alan Cox wrote: (Vax/VMS System Software Handbook) (TOPS-20 User's Manual) Also Files/11 Basic versioning goes back to at least ITS Not sure how old doing file versioning and hiding it away with a tool to go rescue the stuff you blew away by mistake is, but Novell Netware 3 certainly

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-16 Thread Jeffrey V. Merkey
Jeffrey V. Merkey wrote: The trick in the NetWare 3 model was to segregate the directory entries onto special reserved 4K directory blocks (128 byte dir records). When it came time to purge storage after the file system filled, an entire 4K block and all chains was deleted during block