Re: Versioning file system

[H. Peter Anvin]

Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> Yes but tdskb:foo.mac[1013,1013,frob];4 is *not* elegant.

I think describing VMS pathname syntax as "not elegant" is kind of like
describing George W. Bush as "not a genius."

> POSIX is very
> clear about what is acceptable as magic in a pathname, and the unix spec
> even more so.  The NetApp approach recognizes two important things
> 
> 1.	Old version access is the oddity not the norm
> 2.	Standards behaviour is important
> 

3. An atomic snapshot is more useful than a bunch of disconnected
per-file version.  Kind of like CVS vs SVN.

	-hpa
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