certainly fair points. I guess I raised the issue to point out that there
are
other approaches to increase space-efficiency for pristine storage that
rate at least a mention under analysis/considerations, even if just
noted as "considered and discarded".
Overall, I'm sure it would be challenging, but would also likely yield
near-optimal
space efficiency. I don't have direct experience implementing something
like this for any platform, but fyi: dokan (http://dokan-dev.net/en/) looks
like
an interesting possibility for windows platforms.
regards,
markt
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 02:22:45PM -0400, Mark Therieau wrote:
> > Another thought would be to pursue a FUSE-like approach similar to scord
> > [1][2]
> > which implements a lightweight file system adapter that knows just enough
> > about
> > the pristine store and the working copy files such that it could
> maintain a
> > single copy
> > of the pristine contents for the overwhelming majority of files: those
> whose
> > working-copy contents are identical to the pristine base contents.
>
> Would this not be inherently unportable? Not every platform supports FUSE.
>
> It's a nice idea but on the surface this sounds even more complex than
> Ash's original design :)
>
Received on 2012-04-02 22:11:25 CEST