From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 09:13:52 +0100 Message-ID: <20040903091352.A2288@infradead.org> References: <20040826150202.GE5733@mail.shareable.org> <4136E0B6.4000705@namesys.com> <1117111836.20040902115249@tnonline.net> <200409021309.04780.oliver@neukum.org> <4137BE36.5020504@slaphack.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Oliver Neukum , Spam , Hans Reiser , Linus Torvalds , Jamie Lokier , Horst von Brand , Adrian Bunk , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com To: David Masover Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4137BE36.5020504@slaphack.com>; from ninja@slaphack.com on Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 07:43:34PM -0500 List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 07:43:34PM -0500, David Masover wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Oliver Neukum wrote: > | Am Donnerstag, 2. September 2004 11:52 schrieb Spam: > | > |> Btw, version control for ordinary files would be a great feature. I > |> think something like it is available through Windows 2000/3 server. > |> Isn't it called "Shadow Copies". It works over network shares. :) > |> > |> It allows you to restore previous versions of the file even if you > |> delete or overwrite it. > | > | > | There's no need to do that in kernel, unless you want to be able > | to force it unto users. > > And on apps. Should I teach OpenOffice.org to do version control? > Seems a lot easier to just do it in the kernel, and teach everything to > do version control in one fell swoop. Just add a post-save trigger that can check it into any SCM you want.