Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:35:10 -0400 | From | "John Stoffel" <> | Subject | Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives |
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V13> I believe you mean something simillar to:
V13> file1.txt;1 V13> file1.txt;2 V13> file1.txt;3 (yeap, it's VMS)
Or TOPS-20, a precursor to VMS in some ways. It was a nice feature.
V13> where you'll have to cleanup old versions when you don't need V13> them any more... AFAIK that this is older than HDDs
It was usually an automatic cleanup past a certain point or if you went over disk quota.
In any case, while I do like this feature, I'm not sure how we would cleanly implement this inside the unix namespace, or if inside a new namespace, how that new namespace would be joined with a standard Unix one.
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