Re: [boost] Re: filesystem feature request: file versioning

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-04 11:05:44

At 04:03 AM 1/3/2003, Daniel Yerushalmi wrote:

 >On the windows NTFS file system versioning can be simulated by multiple
 >data
 >stream per file (http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs-multiple.htm) (the file name is
 ><full path>:stream name).
 >You can save highest version number in a seperate stream that can be 
locked
 >during access (each stream in a file can be locked individaly).
 >
 >This is none-portable code.... (but all the versioning staff is
 >none-portable anyway).

Yes, that's the problem. It is only worthwhile adding temporary or 
versioning support if we can do so portably.

 >I really enjoyed using the filesystem library!

Thanks! I've been checking a lot of minor doc and code fixes into CVS 
recently.

--Beman