From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jack Stone Subject: Re: Versioning file system Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:27:48 +0100 Message-ID: <46783C44.1040200@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org> References: <46731169.2090002@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org> <4673182B.4090800@redhat.com> <46739E89.1080003@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org> <46781A5B.9090104@redhat.com> <4678292B.6000804@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org> <4678369C.7070908@redhat.com> <467837AB.4030607@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org> <4678395B.4010805@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, "H. Peter Anvin" , alan To: Chris Snook Return-path: Received: from host86-137-96-215.range86-137.btcentralplus.com ([86.137.96.215]:52973 "EHLO hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759611AbXFSU2S (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:28:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4678395B.4010805@redhat.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Chris Snook wrote: > Okay, so now you have to modify ls, cp, tar, and thousands of other > applications to be aware of the versioning, otherwise you can't use it. > > Please don't get hung up on the interface. This is a really cool > feature that will require some serious engineering work to make it work > right. There's no need to reinvent hidden files as well, since we > already have a decades-old standard for that. I realise that but the way this is designed has quickly become a pain in the past. I think that it would be easier to implement somthing like what was suggested in this email: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0706.2/1156.html I'm thinking of writing a simple proof of concept version and then seeing what people think from there. Jack