From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263332AbTDYPIg (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2003 11:08:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263350AbTDYPIg (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2003 11:08:36 -0400 Received: from host78-195.rancor.birch.net ([65.17.78.195]:6212 "EHLO brigadier.ontimesupport.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263332AbTDYPIe (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2003 11:08:34 -0400 Message-ID: <3EA95242.9060303@ontimesupport.com> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 10:20:34 -0500 From: Matthew Sell Organization: On Time Support User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stewart Smith , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: versioned filesystems in linux (was Re: kernel support for non-english user messages) References: <03FA0FB7-76AC-11D7-BE62-00039346F142@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <03FA0FB7-76AC-11D7-BE62-00039346F142@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Stewart Smith wrote: > On Friday, April 11, 2003, at 06:36 AM, John Bradford wrote: > >> When are we going to see versioned filesystems in Linux? That was a >> standard feature in VMS. > > > This is (part of) what I'm doing for my honors project this year - so > possibly something (might) be around and (almost) working by the end > of the year. The real big trick is remote efficiency - but what's the > fun of research if there isn't something tricky? > > If people are actually really interested in it, I might make it a bit > more of a focus :) > > More info avail on request :) It would be nice to see what assistance the FreeVMS group may be able to offer. It appears that they are attempting to make an operating system compatible with VMS based on the Linux kernel. From what I have observed, a few of them seem to have extensive experience with VMS and may be able to offer at least some baseline knowledge as to how VMS accomplishes this. My curiosity lies with the ability to run FreeVMS on VAX.... (Why not? It's just a hobby....) - Matt -- ------------------------- Matthew Sell Programmer UNIX System Administrator On Time Support, Inc. www.ontimesupport.com Join the Metrology Software Discussion List METLIST! www.ontimesupport.com/subscribe_t&c.html AIX - Linux - NetBSD - OpenVMS - Solaris Expand Your Horizons - Stop Looking Through Windows