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From: Pierre Etchemaite <petchema@concept-micro.com>
Subject: Re: snapshot, checkpoints
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 06:54:27 +0200
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Le Wed, 09 Jun 2004 17:21:58 -0500, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> a
=E9crit :

> Good, then we don't have to immediately rewrite the wheel.  But I still
> would rather that we do this eventually.  My concept has the changes
> stored on the same partition, seems like it may be faster, and opens the
> door for a filesystem-based cvs.

Look for "copy-on-write links" (cow links for short) in archives, or with
Google; You'll find many hits, including a message from 2000 suggesting the
idea has been around since at least 1997...