Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives

From: David Masover
Date: Thu Sep 02 2004 - 21:03:05 EST


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Spam wrote:
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| Do you mean in the kernel or as a filesystem/VFS plugin that would
| extend the functionality to include version control?

The filesystem plugin. But this needs some kernel support, which scares
people. Read the archives if you don't believe me.

Besides, we'd want per-block copy-on-write support anyway to make it
sane. That has to go in the filesystem.
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