Erik Trimble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > The only idea I get thast matches this criteria is to have the versions
> > in the extended attribute name space.
> >
> > Jörg
> >
> >   
> Realistically speaking, that's my conclusion, if we want a nice clean, 
> well-designed solution. You need to hide the versioning info in the 
> meta-tags, and create a whole new API for accessing/manipulating them.   
> This easily solves (1) and (2) above, but (3) is the huge problem, as 
> having a new API means you need to change the SMB/NFS protocols to allow 
> for client machines to access the new API.  With the new Windows NTFS 

There is no need to extend NFS as NFS v4 already supports extended attributes.

Jörg

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