Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754977AbXFPIah (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:30:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752556AbXFPIa3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:30:29 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.192.83]:62158 "EHLO rwcrmhc13.comcast.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752407AbXFPIa2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:30:28 -0400 Message-ID: <4673B15B.2080300@wolfmountaingroup.com> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:46:03 -0600 From: "Jeffrey V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Fedora/1.7.8-2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jack Stone CC: alan , hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Subject: Re: Versioning file system References: <46731169.2090002@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org> <467314E2.9010306@zytor.com> <46739B2C.4080606@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <46739B2C.4080606@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org> 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 Content-Length: 1047 Lines: 19 This already exists -- it just not open sourced, and you could spend years trying to create it. Trust me, once you start dealing with the distributed issues with this, its gets very complex. I am not meaning to discourage you, but there are patents already filed on this on Linux. So you need to consider these as well, and there are several folks who are already doing this or have done it. If it goes into Microsoft endorsed cross licensed Linuxes It may be ok (Vertias sold this capability to Microsoft already, about 12 patents there to worry over). There's also another patent filed as well. It's a noble effort to do a free version, but be aware there's some big guns with patents out there already, not to mention doing this is complex beyond belief. Anyway good luck. ~~~~ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/