On Jun 16, 2011, at 12:09 AM, Simon Walter wrote: > 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-level snapshots and consistency. IMHO, >> they should never be mixed together - there are way too many corner cases >> and application-specific memes for a filesystem to ever fully handle >> file-level versioning and *application*-level data consistency. Don't >> mistake one for the other, and, don't try to *use* one for the other. >> They're completely different creatures. >> > > I guess that is true of the current FSs available. Though it would be nice to > essentially have a versioning FS in the kernel rather than an application in > userspace.
You can run OpenVMS :-) -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
