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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


  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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