Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives

John Stoffel
2004-09-02T14:35:10Z

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