From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 23 14:33:56 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C09537B401 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:33:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from empire.explosive.mail.net (empire.explosive.mail.net [205.205.25.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D92B43FDF for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:33:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mykroft@explosive.mail.net) Received: (qmail 10586 invoked from network); 23 Jun 2003 21:33:03 -0000 Received: from ticking.explosive.mail.net (HELO ticking) (205.205.25.116) by empire.explosive.mail.net with SMTP; 23 Jun 2003 21:33:03 -0000 Message-ID: <107201c339cf$a0aa1360$7419cdcd@mykroft.com> From: "Adam Maas" To: "Kenneth Culver" , "David Bear" References: <20030623134836.F10286@asu.edu> <20030623172243.G15314@alpha.yumyumyum.org> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 17:37:21 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2727.1300 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: versioning file system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 21:33:56 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Culver" To: "David Bear" Cc: Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 5:23 PM Subject: Re: versioning file system > > years ago I used a VAX VMS system that automatically saved file versions > > whenever a file name was clobbered. > > > > I've seen wrapper scripts for vi to accomplish the same but it would be > > nice if someone had actually implemented something at the file system > > level to do this. Anyone know of anything like that for FreeBSD? > > Nope, not that I know of... I'm not sure you'll find a lot of people who > like this unless they were accustomed to VMS back however long ago. > > Ken It's something Hans Reiser has on his wishlist for ReiserFS, but it's way off, and I think ReiserFS is the only project contemplating it. Would recomend you look at RCS in the meantime. Adam