I'm looking to create a NAS with versioning for non-technical users
(Windows and Mac). I want the users to be able to simply save a file,
and a revision/snapshot is created. I could use a revision control
software like SVN (it has autoversioning with WebDAV), and I will if
this filesystem level
On 06/15/2011 12:56 PM, Richard Elling wrote:
So now my (ignorant) question: can ZFS make a snapshot every time it's written
to?
I hope not, that would suck most heinously.
Can all writes be available as snapshots so all previous "versions" are
available?
That would suck worse.
Why would
Thanks for the comments. So ZFS alone cannot do what I'd like.
In linux there Gamin. Or there is also a kernel patch which gives you
/proc/fschanges. I could monitor this file for changes and take a
snapshot when a change occurs or under certain circumstances. However,
the Linux COW type FS ar
On 06/15/2011 07:45 PM, Simon Walter wrote:
Thanks for the comments. So ZFS alone cannot do what I'd like.
In linux there Gamin. Or there is also a kernel patch which gives you
/proc/fschanges. I could monitor this file for changes and take a
snapshot when a change occurs or under ce
On 06/15/2011 09:01 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
I know I've certainly had many situations where people wanted to
snapshot or
rev individual files everytime they're modified. As I said - perfect
example is Google Docs. Yes it is useful. But no, it's not what ZFS
does.
Exactly versions of a whole fil
On 06/16/2011 09:09 AM, Erik Trimble wrote:
We had a similar discussion a couple of years ago here, under the
title "A Versioning FS". Look through the archives for the full
discussion.
The jist is that application-level versioning (and consistency) is
completely orthogonal to filesystem-leve
