From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Allison Subject: Re: Versioning file system Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:52:24 -0700 Message-ID: <20070619165224.GA19639@samba1> References: <8wJal-3KA-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <8xm22-4Ql-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <8xq5G-32l-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <8xs7w-69W-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <4676F9A2.6010007@zytor.com> <20070618221021.GB2062@thunk.org> <20070618224815.GM1152@samba1> <20070619070507.GB9177@thunk.org> Reply-To: Jeremy Allison Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Theodore Tso , Jeremy Allison , "H. Peter Anvin" , alan , Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel , Jack Stone , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Return-path: Received: from mail.samba.org ([66.70.73.150]:60493 "EHLO lists.samba.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750939AbXFSQw3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:52:29 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070619070507.GB9177@thunk.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 03:05:07AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > There is a partial implementation lieing around somewhere, but there > were a number of problems we ran into that were discussed in the > slidedeck. Basically, if the only program accessing the files > containing forks was the Samba program calling forkdepot library, it > worked fine. But if there were other programs (or NFS servers) that > were potentially deleting files, moving files around, the things fell > apart fairly quickly. I'd be happy with a Samba-only implementation for Appliance vendors. > What, even with Winfs delaying Microsoft Longwait by years before > finally being flushed? :-) I'm not talking WinFS, I'm talking streams..... Streams are already being used (mainly by malware writers of course - but hey, don't you want full compatibility ? :-). Jeremy.