Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759469AbXFSRBz (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:01:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756811AbXFSRBs (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:01:48 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:51595 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755489AbXFSRBs (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:01:48 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Versioning file system Followup-To: gmane.comp.version-control.git Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:52:22 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <6E9A6F9E-8948-40F2-9129-1F1491D49D83@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-89-229-25-173.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: Jakub Narebski User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1233 Lines: 29 Kyle Moffett wrote: > On Jun 18, 2007, at 13:56:05, Bryan Henderson wrote: >>> The question remains is where to implement versioning: directly in ? >>> individual filesystems or in the vfs code so all filesystems can ? >>> use it? >> >> Or not in the kernel at all. ?I've been doing versioning of the ? >> types I described for years with user space code and I don't ? >> remember feeling that I compromised in order not to involve the ? >> kernel. >> >> Of course, if you want to do it with snapshots and COW, you'll have ? >> to ask where in the kernel to put that, but that's not a file ? >> versioning question; it's the larger snapshot question. > > What I think would be particularly interesting in this domain is ? > something similar in concept to GIT, except in a file-system [cut] How it relates to ext3cow versioning (snapshotting) filesystem, for example? ext3cow assumes linear history, which simplifies things a bit. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - 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/