Re: libefs

[Dietmar Maurer <dm vlsivie tuwien ac at>]

David Orme wrote:
> I'd recommend discarding old versions by default but also providing the
> ability to retain old versions and save deltas as an option.  I think that
> most of the time I would want the simpler behavior but I can think of times
> when I would want to have built-in version control too.

libefs only saves changed blocks. This is not as space efficient as RCS
like deltas but much easier to implement. This way it's also possible to
access different version in parallel.