From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Versioning File Systems?
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 17:27:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020418172758.Q4498@marowsky-bree.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020418110558.A16135@borg.org> <20020418082025.N2710@work.bitmover.com>
On 2002-04-18T08:20:25,
Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> said:
> It's certainly a fun space, file system hacking is always fun. There
> doesn't seem to be a good match between file system operations and
> SCM operations, especially stuff like checkin. write != checkin.
> But you can handle that with
Either that, or heuristics - file not written to / opened for writing in x
minutes -> commit.
That would actually be pretty interesting because it might also allow you to
back out editor screwups ;-)
However, deducing change sets is more difficult.
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
--
Immortality is an adequate definition of high availability for me.
--- Gregory F. Pfister
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-18 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-18 15:05 Versioning File Systems? Kent Borg
2002-04-18 15:20 ` Larry McVoy
2002-04-18 15:27 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree [this message]
2002-04-18 16:55 ` Kent Borg
2002-04-18 17:04 ` Joshua MacDonald
2002-04-20 8:44 ` Thomas Zimmerman
2002-04-18 23:19 ` Stevie O
2002-04-19 4:12 ` Mark Mielke
2002-04-18 18:11 ` Jeremy Jackson
2002-04-23 22:42 ` Bill Davidsen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-18 16:51 Kerl, John
2002-04-18 17:24 ` Florin Iucha
2002-04-18 18:14 ` Kent Borg
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