From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264471AbTDXXMo (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 19:12:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264472AbTDXXMo (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 19:12:44 -0400 Received: from smtpout.mac.com ([17.250.248.88]:10205 "EHLO smtpout.mac.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264471AbTDXXMm (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 19:12:42 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 09:25:20 +1000 Subject: versioned filesystems in linux (was Re: kernel support for non-english user messages) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), root@chaos.analogic.com, fdavis@si.rr.com (Frank Davis), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux Kernel Mailing List) To: John Bradford From: Stewart Smith In-Reply-To: <200304102036.h3AKa837025670@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> Message-Id: <03FA0FB7-76AC-11D7-BE62-00039346F142@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday, April 11, 2003, at 06:36 AM, John Bradford wrote: > When are we going to see versioned filesystems in Linux? That was a > standard feature in VMS. This is (part of) what I'm doing for my honors project this year - so possibly something (might) be around and (almost) working by the end of the year. The real big trick is remote efficiency - but what's the fun of research if there isn't something tricky? If people are actually really interested in it, I might make it a bit more of a focus :) More info avail on request :) ------------------------------ Stewart Smith stewartsmith@mac.com Ph: +61 4 3884 4332 ICQ: 6734154