From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: Authoring a versioning plugin Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:48:58 -0800 Message-ID: <43C8204A.1050909@namesys.com> References: <200601111759.14638.fred@lab.matcom.uh.cu> <200601121014.37940.pvh@uvic.ca> <43C80EC3.7050003@namesys.com> <43C818D2.4080805@ac24.ee> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <43C818D2.4080805@ac24.ee> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Toomas Laasik Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Toomas Laasik wrote: > Hello, > Here are some links that I have found while searching such file > systems that can keep versions or log of changes: > http://logfs.sourceforge.net/ - small logging filesystem project > started by a student, but not very stable yet > http://wayback.sourceforge.net/ - written in Perl, based on quite old > version on FUSE API > http://sourceforge.net/projects/cvsfs - uses CVS as file system, based > on FUSE API > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/ - very powerful file > system that supports snapshots of files > Microsoft has made something too on their server platform, but I > couldn't find a link for that. > > It seems to me that many have started with it, but haven't finished. > Creating a versioning FS that is comercially stable and fast takes a > lot of effort and is quite complex. Go discover what and how others > have done it and how to do it best in ReiserFS. > > I would be very interested in stable file system that supports > automatic versioning. Maybe ReiserFS becomes the first one that I can > actually use. I don't want a userspace FS, but a good FS where I can > safely keep my FreeBSD installation. > > Toomas Clearcase is out there and finished and it works. Several thousand dollars a seat though.... ;-) Hans