HAMMER filesystem talk- Matthew Dillon
Here is an interesting talk by DragonFlyBSD’s , Matthew Dillon on the HAMMER filesystem:
http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk154.ogg
A particular interesting part is how the HAMMER Filesystem syncs to the disk and maintains a history of the syncs- one of the motives could be backing up the disk.
It got me thinking if this is similar or better than Apples Time Machine. Discussions are welcome
i’d like to look at it as inbuilt version control. there could be interesting applications. p.s: havent listened to the talk yet.
Sharath
July 11, 2008
As Matt talks about it- there could be plenty. Inbuilt version control does seem like one helluva feature- never really thought about it.
Check out the talk when you can. There’s more here:
http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/
nirmalthacker
July 11, 2008
bob, you should also take a look at solaris’s ZFS. way ahead of other file systems right now. see this -> http://osnews.com/story/20280/Nexenta_Ubuntu_Server_with_ZFS_goodness
Sharath
October 19, 2008