Re: Versioning file system

From: Kok, Auke
Date: Fri Jun 15 2007 - 18:57:30 EST


Jack Stone wrote:
I hope I got the CC list right. Apologies to anyone in didn't include
and anyone I shouldn't have included.

The basic idea is to include an idea from VMS that seems to be quite
useful: version numbers for files.

<snip>

have you looked into ext3cow? it allows you to take snapshots of the entire ext3 fs at a single point, and rollback / extract snapshots at any time later. This may be sufficient for you and the implementation seems to be rather stable already.

Cheers,

Auke


http://www.ext3cow.com/
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