Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Apr 2002 18:42:47 -0400 (EDT) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: Versioning File Systems? |
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On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Kent Borg wrote:
> I just read an article mentioned on Slashdot, > <http://www.sigmaxi.org/amsci/Issues/Comsci02/Compsci2002-05.html>. > > It is a fascinating short summary of the history of hard disks (they > still use the same fundamental design as the very first one) and an > update on current technology (disks are no longer aluminum). It also > looks at today's 120 gigabyte disk and muses over the question of how > we might ever put an imagined 120 terabyte disk to use. And the got > me thinking various thoughts, one turns into a question for this list: > It there any work going on to make a versioning file system? > > I remember in VMS that I could accumulate "myfile.txt;1", > "myfilw.txt;2", etc., until the local admin got pissed at me for using > up all the disk space with my several megabytes of redundant files.
I seem to remember that some CD filesystem does that, and you can see the versions with Linux if you mount with the right options.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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