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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi all,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There were some discussions for some time ago about
disk data that lives </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"forever" and all versions are
available.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jay wrote:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>> An interesting<BR>> approach would be to make the disk
single-assignment. *Never*<BR>> allow data to be modified, only allow
new versions of the<BR>> data to be created and retain all versions for their
lifetime.<BR><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Would this be something to think about?
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. This way everything looks like normal files,
but they aren't. Maybe Luke's nfs server could also be a part of this
too...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>best regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Vlad</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>