[plug] undelete files in ext3 file system

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Tue Sep 2 14:53:37 WST 2003


On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:43:56PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
| Actually, this rings a bell for some reason. I seem to recall some
| sort of filesystem where the past revisions are not visible during
| directory traversal but can be retrieved if you use a special
| filename. This might not have been a real general-purpose filesystem
| "layer", though -- it might have been an application feature that was
| just supposed to look like a filesystem feature.

At LCA this year someone was talking about a version control system that
looked like a filesystem (operated as an NFS server) and worked in
exactly this way.   Perhaps that's what you're remembering?

Cheers,

Cameron.



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