[geeks] Versioning FIlesystem

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Fri, 23 May 2003, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

> > I believe that it should be purely in the filesystem.  It (meaning the
> > versioning support) really needs to be required, though.  Is there any
> > way of insuring that?
>
> Nope.  Not unless you're storing pure diffs.  If there are multiple
> complete "images" of each file, how can you force a driver to do
> whatever?

This sounds strange even to me, but would it be possible to store just
diffs and access them as full files?  It would be slow as hell, but it
would work, no?  There's gotta be a faster way of doing something similar.

Peace...  Sridhar