Sounds like what you want is a nilfs2 or similar file-system... http://nilfs.sourceforge.net/en/ http://nilfs.sourceforge.net/en/ And/or a system like etckeep

Sounds like what you want is a nilfs2 or similar file-system... http://nilfs.sourceforge.net/en/ http://nilfs.sourceforge.net/en/ And/or a system like etckeeper to help keep a log on top of an fs that doesn't keep one for you: http://etckeeper.branchable.com/ http://etckeeper.branchable.com/