From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jack Stone Subject: Re: Versioning file system Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:38:06 +0100 Message-ID: <46783EAE.6050804@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> <18040.15842.698982.608861@stoffel.org> 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 , Chris Snook To: John Stoffel Return-path: Received: from host86-137-96-215.range86-137.btcentralplus.com ([86.137.96.215]:35633 "EHLO hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752680AbXFSUio (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:38:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <18040.15842.698982.608861@stoffel.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org John Stoffel wrote: >>>>>> "Jack" == Jack Stone writes: > > Jack> The whole idea of the file system is that it wouldn't return the > Jack> file in the file listing. The user would have to know that the > Jack> file system was versioning to access the older versions as they > Jack> would explicitly have to request them. > > So tell me what happens when I do: > > touch foo:121212121212 > > This fs crashes and burns because the interface still isn't correct. Honestly, I don't know and this will be the problem of any interfaces that follow this format. Jack