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From: Padraig Brady <Padraig@AnteFacto.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
Cc: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Yet another linux filesytem: with version control
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:30:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B5D4024.2080109@AnteFacto.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010723141751.W6820@work.bitmover.com> <200107240524.f6O5OwX286884@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <20010723223413.G15284@work.bitmover.com>

Larry McVoy wrote:

> 
> Useful stuff would be the copy on write file system, that's good for SCM
> and other things

Ooh ooh! are there any filesystems @ present that support copy on write?
Seems like a very useful feature that would be relatively easy to 
implement (just
store a hash for each file in it's inode). With the ammount of duplicate 
files on my
system (see freshmeat.net/projects/fslint) it would be very useful. 
write() already
supports ENOSPC because of holes in files etc. There would be large 
overhead
though as the hash for a file would have to be generated on each write() 
? For a
"revision control" filesystem it would probably be more appropriate to 
work @ the
block level instead? Hmm snapFS be appropriate for this ?
http://uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0103.0/0436.html
Sorry just thinking out load..

Padraig.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-07-24  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-23 21:06 Yet another linux filesytem: with version control Jerome de Vivie
2001-07-23 21:17 ` Larry McVoy
2001-07-23 21:51   ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-23 22:19     ` Jerome de Vivie
2001-07-23 22:29       ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-23 23:05         ` Jerome de Vivie
2001-07-23 23:30           ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-24 13:30             ` Olivier Galibert
2001-07-24 16:42             ` Jerome de Vivie
2001-07-23 23:14         ` Larry McVoy
2001-07-24 23:57       ` Peter A. Castro
2001-07-23 22:00   ` Jerome de Vivie
2001-07-23 22:14     ` Larry McVoy
2001-07-23 22:27       ` Jerome de Vivie
2001-07-24  5:24   ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-07-24  5:34     ` Larry McVoy
2001-07-24  6:06       ` Alexander Viro
2001-07-24  9:30       ` Padraig Brady [this message]
2001-07-24 19:07     ` Jan Harkes
2001-07-24  2:13 ` Keith Owens
2001-07-24 13:07 ` Andrew Pimlott
2001-07-24 17:14   ` Jerome de Vivie
2001-07-24 19:05     ` Andrew Pimlott
2001-07-24 23:14       ` Jerome de Vivie
2001-07-25  0:39         ` Andrew Pimlott
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-23 22:50 Florin Iucha

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