[aklug] Re: Versioning File Systems

s/Christian/Cristopher/g;

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Shane Spencer <shane@bogomip.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Leif Sawyer <lsawyer@gci.com> wrote:
>> I was a VMS user while I worked at UAA.
>>
>> VMS's shell, DCL, supported (and in this case utilized) versioning.
>>
>> $ show default
>> $my_path:[fnord]:
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0history.txt;1 =A0 history.txt;2 =A0 history.txt;3
>>
>
> That reminds me of AtFS (atfs is pretty common in most linux distros,
> but rarely used since CVS/SVN is more common)
>
> Christopher there are lots of fuse based filesystems as well as
> operating systems like opensolaris that can use zfs and export it over
> NFS/SMB. =A0One trick I thought was rather neat with SMB was the ability
> to create shadow copy information for Windows clients to use by
> enabling the module and setting up directories accordingly.
>
> There is also NILFS.. I freaking love NILFS but it's kinda immature.
> While you're at it download Dragonfly BSD and check out HammerFS.. mwa
> ha ha ha ha.
>
> Personally, Christian, I would just use SVN + WebDAV and davfs2. =A0Then
> I would also use metastore occasionally to back up file
> permissions/owner/user/acl info. =A0It's simple to set up and centralize
> and fully automatic and mostly atomic.
>
> - Shane
>
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Received on Wed Mar 3 21:55:01 2010