[clue-tech] "rewindable" drive?

[Angelo Bertolli]

Maybe I didn't understand if the problem is more complex than this, but 
I think zfs is the perfect tool for handling this kind of thing.  Since 
this is a small thing for a developer area, you can set up a zfs file 
system in userspace under linux and not have to use Solaris.  ZFS can be 
set up to track changes to the file system.

At work we are using Solaris/ZFS + rsync to make backups, and it works 
very nicely.

Unfortunately Sun seems to have licensed ZFS open source, but 
specifically to be incompatible with the GPL so it's going to be a long 
time before you can use it on Linux without a performance hit.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS



Angelo

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