In message <pine.bsf.3.96.990614120238.366e-100...@server.ghostgbtb.com> Marc Ramirez writes: : Well, I'd like to add versioning, too, but _that's_ hard!
Versioning wouldn't be too hard to add to a filesystem. Name lookup would be impacted. The act of creating a new version would just be the creat(2) system call, or open with the O_CREAT bit set (and maybe with the O_TRUNC bit too). However, adding utilities to deal with all these new versions might take a lot of time since various versioning schemes have been implemented in userland over the years (all the foo~ or foo~3~ files from us emacs users, for example). I don't know if it would be worth it to actually do this, but it would make an interesting kernel hacking project for someone wishing to learn about the vfs layer. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
