Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: srfs - a new file system. | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Thu, 23 Oct 2003 01:37:05 -0400 |
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On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:20:21 +0900, Miles Bader said:
> Distributed version control systems, OTOH, because they're at a somewhat > higher level, have the huge advantage of distinct operational boundaries > which are exposed the user and can be used to manage the distribution. > Since users are used to these boundaries, and they usually occur at > fairly obvious and reasonable places, this isn't such a burden on the > users.
On the flip side, a filesystem only has to worry about who wrote which blocks in what order. I suspect if you tried to push the idea of a filesystem that did the sort of intuiting of intent that BitKeeper has to do on a merge, it would quickly get shouted down.
Unless of course somebody does BK as a Reiser4 module. :) [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |