WORM is a great idea, allowing to store only the diff and to be able to version is a bonus.
But there is one drawback: when one is modifying rapidly a file (tentatives), it can spoil the worm with useless modifications. The fossil snapshots were a solution (allowing to "commit" on demand). >From https://9p.io/sys/doc/fs/fs.html, the copying of modifications from fscache to buffer (scp) as well as the copying of the buffer to the WORM (wcp) is done every ten seconds. Is there a way, from userland, to modify the frequency of the scp and wcp depending on the binding name? Has someone attempted to build a stack of other and fscache, so that the writable upper level (other) is used as a chalkboard and, when the user is satisfied with the tentative file, he can "commit" this "minute" (sketch) to the fscache---letting then the normal procedures register the differences in the WORM? Related: when using git, git by itself has the registration of the modifications. So the .git could be put in fscache, but the current copy should be in other. Is there a way to achieve this---if I understand correctly (I may not), gitfs serves the .git hierarchy but is not creating as an artefact the working directory, making the branch appear, and overwriting with locally modified not committed files? (Hoping my sort of English is sufficiently understandable...) -- Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ kergis +dot+ com> http://www.kergis.com/ http://kertex.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T5a27390f138b4be1-Mcbd4e0ee18e240f331c46c59 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
