On 5/20/07, Jan Claeys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FileSystems
Includes at least 3 versioned filesystems...
Ooh, somebody's implementing ZFS over Fuse as well!
http://www.wizy.org/wiki/ZFS_on_FUSE
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William Tracy
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Op vrijdag 18-05-2007 om 04:42 uur [tijdzone +], schreef William
Tracy:
Of course a completely different approach would be a file system
capable of roll-back, and in doing that, a user may well benefit from
the backup services such a solution offers.
[...]
Actually, I off and on
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 04:42:54AM +, William Tracy wrote:
Actually, I off and on wonder if it would be possible to implement a
filesystem over Subversion, and then just mount /home on that. I'm
sure there's all kinds of gotchas with that idea, but it would be
really cool.
Really cool,
On May 18, 2007, at 10:51 AM, Onno Benschop wrote:
...
What I see here is a classic example of an expectation mismatch. The
new user expects the computer to almost honour their data,
That's a variation on Raskin's First Law of Interaction: A computer
shall not harm your work or, through
A user, timothy, describing his difficulties at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/113154
describes his frustration as a new user, in discovering the hard way
that tar's default is to overwrite existing files, causing him to lose
important data.
While I'm opposed to fixing the problem in
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On 18/05/07 06:18, Micah Cowan wrote:
A user, timothy, describing his difficulties at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/113154
describes his frustration as a new user, in discovering the hard way
that tar's default is to overwrite existing
Op donderdag 17-05-2007 om 15:18 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Micah
Cowan:
A user, timothy, describing his difficulties at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/113154
describes his frustration as a new user, in discovering the hard way
that tar's default is to overwrite existing files,
Jan Claeys wrote:
Op donderdag 17-05-2007 om 15:18 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Micah
Cowan:
A user, timothy, describing his difficulties at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/113154
describes his frustration as a new user, in discovering the hard way
that tar's default is to
On 18/05/07 08:25, Micah Cowan wrote:
Jan Claeys wrote:
Op donderdag 17-05-2007 om 15:18 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Micah
Cowan:
A user, timothy, describing his difficulties at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/113154
describes his frustration as a new user, in
Onno Benschop wrote:
On 18/05/07 06:18, Micah Cowan wrote:
A user, timothy, describing his difficulties at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/113154
describes his frustration as a new user, in discovering the hard way
that tar's default is to overwrite existing files, causing him to
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 06:03:18PM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote:
A completely different approach could be that the calls that
actually write to a file check that the file does not exist. You
could activate this with a system-wide flag, but I strongly suspect
that this would be more work than
A new CLI version of file-roller would rock. We need more CLI-GUI
code/concept/functionality sharing. Other candidates include
gnome-system-monitor (vs. top) and nautilus (so you could browse DAV on
the CLI, just like you do local file systems, for example).
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 15:18 -0700,
On Thursday 17 May 2007 18:18, Micah Cowan wrote:
A user, timothy, describing his difficulties at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/113154
describes his frustration as a new user, in discovering the hard way
that tar's default is to overwrite existing files, causing him to lose
Soren Hansen wrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 06:03:18PM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote:
A completely different approach could be that the calls that
actually write to a file check that the file does not exist. You
could activate this with a system-wide flag, but I strongly suspect
that this would be
Scott Kitterman wrote:
On Thursday 17 May 2007 18:18, Micah Cowan wrote:
A user, timothy, describing his difficulties at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/113154
describes his frustration as a new user, in discovering the hard way
that tar's default is to overwrite existing files,
Yes. Well, the user expects the computer to do what it is told, too, but
doesn't realize that without flags like --backup or -k, he has
implicitly told the computer to go ahead and write over anything it sees.
Apparently tar -w gives you interactive mode. Unfortunately, when it
finds an
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