Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, jeremias@optushome.com.au wrote:
> 
>>>>Does anyone know of a versioning filessytem that is supported in netbsd? 
> 
> You didn't explain what you meant by "a versioning filesystem", but
> after a few messages in the thread, I think I have a rough idea.

Well, he did say that he looked for something VMS-like...

>>When I used VMS, the copy on write policy seemed to be exactly what I liked 
>>(and missed since then). 
>>
>>CVS subversion etc, are all depending on the user to save the version. 
> 
> You could probably build something using portalfs as a front end, and
> webdav or subversion as a back end; you could even make semicolons
> behave in a VMSish way.  Also, if you find anything using the Linux
> "FUSE" user-space file system framework, it might make sense to adapt it
> to portalfs.

Don't know enough about portalfs and other stuff in Unix to tell if any 
could be adopted to something similar to VMS.
VMS isn't exactly copy on write either. There is a lot more (and less) 
to it.

	Johnny