Joseph Mocker wrote:
However would it be great if I could somehow easily FV a file I am
working on with some arbitrary (closed) application I am forced to use
without the application really knowing about it, and with little or no
actions I have to take to do so?
To paraphrase an old wive's tale:
"That ain't gonna happen in my lifetime."
I think that this discussion thread has determined that you DON'T want
to make file versioning visible to un-modified applications.
That said, given that it looks like a new FV API is the current favorite
implementation way, I see no reason why you can't open your favorite
app, edit FOO, and have ZFS do versioning on it behind the scenes. You
just won't be able to see the versions from inside your App. You'd need
a FV-aware app (whether a GUI filebrower or cmdline util) to access the
old versions, and potentially copy an older version to a new filename,
allowing you to edit it in your non-FV-aware App.
-Erik
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