[Gllug] Undelete...?

[Bruce Richardson]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 04:41:56PM +0000, David wrote:
> Something I always thought would make a very cool feature of a file
> system is to integrate many of the cvs features, so that when you save
> a file, you could revert to older verions - so that when you
> accidently mess up your sed operation, and obliterate the wrong file
> etc, you could just revert to the one three saves ago, it would be
> excellent for something like /etc/ but then, thats why we have cvs....

The Plan 9 OS has that feature.  But then Plan 9 isn't really a pure OS
but an OS plus a bunch of integrated applications forcing a particular
design philosophy.  This is a great contrast to one of the fundamental
tenets of Unix (that you provide the tools but leave policy to the
administrator).  Guess which one is more popular.

-- 
Bruce

Hierophant: someone who remembers, when you are on the way down,
everything you did to them on the way up.
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