[aklug] Re: Versioning File Systems

From: Shane Spencer <shane@bogomip.com>
Date: Wed Mar 03 2010 - 22:47:31 AKST

While you're at it.. check out btrfs (in the kernel now).. I haven't
had the chance to try it out yet. However it has lots of promise.

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us> w=
rote:
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> Shane Spencer wrote:
>> 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 abilit=
y
>>> 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. =A0The=
n
>>> I would also use metastore occasionally to back up file
>>> permissions/owner/user/acl info. =A0It's simple to set up and centraliz=
e
>>> and fully automatic and mostly atomic.
>>>
>>> - Shane
>>>
>
> Ha! You can call me Christian if you want to. But only if you mean it in
> the theological sense. That's basically what "Christopher" means,
> etymologically.
>
> To be honest, I hate SVN. For real projects I'm a die-hard Git fanatic.
>
> As far as filesystems: since you speak pretty highly of NILFS, I think
> I'll play around with it. Looks like they've got a real professional
> looking website, at least. Only concern is it says "Quota support" is
> still on the TODO list. (Does the filesystem have to support quotas for
> user quotas to be implemented?)
>
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