Re: Yet another linux filesytem: with version control

[Rik van Riel]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Jerome de Vivie wrote:
> Rik van Riel a écrit :
> > On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Larry McVoy wrote:
> >
> > > b) Filesystem support for SCM is really a flawed approach.
> >
> > Agreed.  I mean, how can you cleanly group changesets and
> > versions with a filesystem level "transparent" SCM ?
>
> With label !
>
> In my initial post, i have explain that labels are used to
> identify individual files AND are also uses to select for
> each files of a set, one version (= select a configuration).
> It works !

Hmmmm, so it's not completely transparent. Good.

Now if you want to make this kernel-accessible, why
not make a userland NFS daemon which uses something
like bitkeeper or PRCS as its backend ?

The system would then look like this:

 _____    _______    _____    _____
|     |  |       |  |     |  |     |
| SCM |--| UNFSD |--| NET |--| NFS |
|_____|  |_______|  |_____|  |_____|

And there, you have a transparent SCM filesystem
that works over the network ... without ever having
to modify the kernel or implement SCM.

> versioning is yet a first step.

And I'm not convinced it is even needed. All you
really need is the glue layer between the SCM
system and the kernel. A user level NFS server
will do this just fine.

regards,

Rik
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