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jaem

Member

From: Canada

Registered: 2009-01-24

Posts: 23

Keeping revisions of /home

Hey folks,
I've read some accounts of people keeping their /home in svn or similar, and I've heard of filesystems that do versioning of sorts.  However, I'm wondering if there is any way of transparently* keeping revision history of files in a specified folder.  *When I say "transparently", I don't care what I have to do to retrieve older revisions, or manage other features, but for it to be useful to me, I need to be able to open the latest revision of a document in a normal GUI application, then hit save and have my file added/updated without any other actions on my part.  For non-code files, keeping revisions can be useful, but not useful enough to me to justify manually checking them in and out of a standard revision-control system.  That's just a pain.  Does anyone know of anything like that that I haven't heard of? 
Thanks,
-Jeff

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-Jeffery

Daenyth

Forum Fellow

From: Boston, MA

Registered: 2008-02-24

Posts: 1,244

Re: Keeping revisions of /home

You probably want a copy-on-write filesystem

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bender02

Member

From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: Keeping revisions of /home

As Daenyth wrote... Nilfs is probably what you want.

jaem

Member

From: Canada

Registered: 2009-01-24

Posts: 23

Re: Keeping revisions of /home

Thanks - that's exactly what I was looking for.

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-Jeffery

Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 2,563

Re: Keeping revisions of /home

Do note that Nilfs can be extremely slow, from what little benchmarks I've seen on the web.

jaem

Member

From: Canada

Registered: 2009-01-24

Posts: 23

Re: Keeping revisions of /home

Good to know.  I'm just planning on making a small partition, and mounting it under my /home for a relatively small number of files, so it shouldn't bother me much - I'm not planning on storing everything on it.

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-Jeffery