Date: 23 Jun 2003 17:36:01 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: versioning file system Message-ID: <44el1kbhoe.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20030623134836.F10286@asu.edu> References: <20030623134836.F10286@asu.edu>
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David Bear <David.Bear@asu.edu> writes: > years ago I used a VAX VMS system that automatically saved file > versions whenever a file name was clobbered. Among the many clever features of VMS. > 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? No. Full support of this feature would involve a lot more than just the filesystem, since applications that look at directories directly have to know about about the backup versions in order to use them. Individual applications can do a "poor man's" version of this (e.g., the Gnu 'ls' support for emacs-style backup filenames), but again it's limited by (or to) the applications that know about it.
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