Read only filesystems

Garry Hodgson garry@REDACTED
Tue Apr 8 15:07:00 CEST 2003


Chris Pressey wrote:

>  > It would be neat to see something a bit more explicit
>  > (a bit like CVS or a wiki, perhaps,) where you could select
>  > an object and select "revert to" and pick a date.

we used to use a thing called 3dfs back in the early 90's that let
you do that.  that is, if you wanted an old version of /home/garry/.profile,
you'd just go to (something like) /2002-12-21/home/garry/.profile.
you could edit it, diff it, etc.  very, very, nice.

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