>Brian Hechinger wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 11:19:19AM -0700, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >>> On 10/5/06, Jeremy Teo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> What would a version FS buy us that cron+ zfs snapshots doesn't? >>> Finer granularity; no chance of missing a change. >>> >>> TOPS-20 did this, and it was *tremendously* useful . Snapshots, source >>> control, and other alternatives aren't, in fact, alternatives. >>> They're useful in and of themselves, very useful indeed, but they >>> don't address the same needs as versioning. >> >> VMS _still_ does this, and it's one of my favorite features of the OS. > >It is a real PITA if you are unfortunate enough to use quotas :-(
It's one of the things I hated about VMS; so I quickly wrote a script which on logout purged all extra copies and renamed all files back to *;1. Casper _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
