Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:02:05 +0200 | From | DervishD <> | Subject | Re: ext2 on flash memory |
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Hi Philipp :))
* Ph. Marek <philipp.marek@bmlv.gv.at> dixit: > > I was just wondering if, apart from the excessive wear, there were > > other reasons. One of the reasons I would like to use a good filesystem > > for a pendrive is to be able to store file metadata (UID, GID, mode, > > etc.) properly, for example to store a "live" copy of my home dir in the > > pendrive. > If it would be enough to have a backup (with meta-data), that needs some > software to be read again, you could also try fsvs (http://fsvs.tigris.org). > > That does a full filesystem versioning (with owner, group, mode and mtime) > into a subversion repository. This would have the benefit that you could keep > the "prefered" filesystem, but have a (versioned!) backup of your data.
Your message is very peculiar... because I already have a similar thing working on my system ;))) I tried FSVS and I didn't like it fully (don't ask me why, I don't even remember, that was a time ago), so I wrote my own system.
Instead of a complex solution, I opted for a simple (but ad-hoc) solution, writing a pre-commit-hook in Perl and a couple of files to store the metadata. Very simple but I have all my system configuration files (and other files that I want to have versioned) under SVN.
Thanks for your suggestion anyway, because I think that the concept (having versioned system files) is interesting and very useful :))
Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
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