File versioning

[Bengt Kleberg]

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> There were some discussions for some time ago about disk data that lives 
> "forever" and all versions are available.
> 
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> In an Erlang environment, we could modify the file server to access some kind 
of repository for some parts of the namespace, which could be a database or a 
CVS repository or something like that.


see http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/venti/venti.html for a
write-only file server.
they (plan9 developers) have plenty (since before 1990) of experience with 
write-only file servers. they like it.


bengt