On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 02:22:45PM -0400, Mark Therieau wrote: > Another thought would be to pursue a FUSE-like approach similar to scord > [1][2] > which implements a lightweight file system adapter that knows just enough > about > the pristine store and the working copy files such that it could maintain a > single copy > of the pristine contents for the overwhelming majority of files: those whose > working-copy contents are identical to the pristine base contents.
Would this not be inherently unportable? Not every platform supports FUSE. It's a nice idea but on the surface this sounds even more complex than Ash's original design :)