On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 11:38:48PM +0100, Nic James Ferrier wrote:
> If cow files were just a little bit more portable it would be possible
> to do version control with them.
>
> This would be neat. Especially for complex software systems. It would
> integrate the OS with the version control.
>
> eg: need a particular version of a particular library for your app? No
> need to add build time checks anymore. Just start version controling
> the entire install image.
>
> Are there any ideas about how cow files can be made more portable,
> more tolerant of underlying fs changes?
Portable == you can change the backing file?
I think that's pretty hopeless.
Jeff
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