From owner-freebsd-fs Fri Mar 20 01:49:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA27639 for freebsd-fs-outgoing; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 01:49:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from proxy-bsb.gns.com.br (aEmuibloo3DgRRG9T+cBOD60u7DScAgh@srv1-bsb.GNS.com.br [200.239.56.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA27630 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 01:49:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@gns.com.br) Received: (qmail 7590 invoked by uid 1147); 20 Mar 1998 09:43:39 -0000 Received: from srv1-bsb.gns.com.br (200.239.56.1) by proxy-bsb.gns.com.br with SMTP; 20 Mar 1998 09:43:39 -0000 Received: (from mail@localhost) by srv1-bsb.gns.com.br (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA07582; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 06:43:39 -0300 (EST) Received: from dl0235-bsb.gns.com.br(200.239.56.235) by srv1-bsb.gns.com.br via smap (V2.0) id xma007578; Fri, 20 Mar 98 06:42:59 -0300 Received: (from dcs@localhost) by daniel.sobral (8.8.8/8.8.6) id WAA06470; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 22:32:22 -0300 (EST) From: "Daniel C. Sobral" Message-Id: <199803200132.WAA06470@daniel.sobral> Subject: Re: Stackable filesystems? In-Reply-To: <4333.890341283@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Mar 19, 98 10:01:23 pm" To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 22:32:22 -0300 (EST) Disclaimer: Klaatu Barada Nikto! X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Unheedful of thy elder's warnings, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >Hey, Terry, one more filesystem to your list of "future work on stackable > >fs": version control fs. Would people prefer something simple like vms or a > >fully-featured cvs-like system? > > I would hate it. > > Just like I hate Clearcase... > > This is exactly the kind of thing you should NOT do in the kernel... People, of course, might differ. The question, though, is not if it should be _in_ the kernel, but if it should be (ie. would useful as) a fs. There is a difference, you know... -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@gns.com.br Four thousand different MAGNATES, MOGULS & NABOBS are romping in my gothic solarium!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message