> Sounds exactly like the ext2fs journaling I'm working on, doesn't it? :)
> The journaling will, by default, use a reserved journal inode on your
> existing filesystem, but it will have an option to journal to a separate
> device if you want. And if you happen to have a solid-state SCSI disk,
> just store the journal there (or on a local nvram board, if you have
> such a thing).
Another feature that we can perhaps learn from this excellent company
is the "snapshot" function.
In every directory is a .snapshot directory.
In every .snapshot directorare directories like:
hourly.1
hourly.2
hourly.3
daily.1
daily.2
weekly.1
weekly.2
etc etc.. cd into those and you ended up with the files that were
present at those times.
Obviously this is completely impractical for some applications (EG: news,
mailservers etc) - But, in principle, would it be feasable to add this
functionality into the journalling filesystem ?
Regards,
Red
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