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From: "John Stoffel" <stoffel@lucent.com>
Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:35:10 -0400
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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.

John