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I recall that for Windows "Longhorn" they were supposed to include a file system based on SQL Server. Never happened. We ended up with "Vista" instead. Maybe

I recall that for Windows "Longhorn" they were supposed to include a file system based on SQL Server. Never happened. We ended up with "Vista" instead. Maybe they've learned their lessons on that. I do recall some years ago seeing someone had posted (here maybe?) that they were using git to manage their home directory and everything in it. Having the ability to easily switch between versions of my operating system could possibly be great. git checkout -b upgrade/service-pack-12 # ...trying things... # ..decide it was a terrible idea... git reset --hard git checkout - # phew!

sho_hn 10y ago
You can do that with btrfs snapshots and letting your package manager snapshot the fs on every transaction. Then just boot into an older snapshot. There's also etc-keeper for keeping /etc & co in a git repo for a partial approach.
- espadrine 10y ago
  It is such an appealing problem that it is solved many, many times. There is LVM snapshotting, tar backup restoring; btrfs is probably the most adequate. But GVFS feels more like the spiritual child of git and Dropbox Smart Sync (formerly Infinite).
  - fnord123 10y ago
    Dropbox Smart Sync is the child of Cloud Storage Gateways: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_storage_gateway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_storage_gateway
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danieldk 10y ago
FreeBSD provides this with boot environments: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?beadm https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?beadm
sigi45 10y ago
You can do that with nixos. Anyway when the said this about a File System based on SQL Server, i really liked the idea. I had something similiar in my head: Instead of installing software to folders, you add a node and all necessary files are referenced in this node. That is basicly what apps are doing right now already. But imagine that your folders become tags and meaning and when you put images into a 'year' or in an 'event' node they are already sorted.
- nolok 10y ago
  > But imagine that your folders become tags and meaning and when you put images into a 'year' or in an 'event' node they are already sorted. You might be interested by this: http://stackoverflow.com/a/3263550 http://stackoverflow.com/a/3263550 In particular, Tagistant allows things such as: $ ls ~/myfiles/store/photos/@/London/ $ ls ~/myfiles/store/pictures:/aperture/gt/5.6/@ $ ls ~/myfiles/store/time:/hour/lt/3/@ etc ...
  - sigi45 10y ago
    I will have alook :). In generall it would have been awesome if MS would have done it on a broad spectrum.
bluejekyll 10y ago
I'll throw in a mention of OSTree: https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree

sho_hn 10y ago

You can do that with btrfs snapshots and letting your package manager snapshot the fs on every transaction. Then just boot into an older snapshot. There's also etc-keeper for keeping /etc & co in a git repo for a partial approach.

espadrine 10y ago
It is such an appealing problem that it is solved many, many times. There is LVM snapshotting, tar backup restoring; btrfs is probably the most adequate. But GVFS feels more like the spiritual child of git and Dropbox Smart Sync (formerly Infinite).
- fnord123 10y ago
  Dropbox Smart Sync is the child of Cloud Storage Gateways: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_storage_gateway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_storage_gateway

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danieldk 10y ago

FreeBSD provides this with boot environments: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?beadm https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?beadm

sigi45 10y ago

You can do that with nixos. Anyway when the said this about a File System based on SQL Server, i really liked the idea. I had something similiar in my head: Instead of installing software to folders, you add a node and all necessary files are referenced in this node. That is basicly what apps are doing right now already. But imagine that your folders become tags and meaning and when you put images into a 'year' or in an 'event' node they are already sorted.

nolok 10y ago
> But imagine that your folders become tags and meaning and when you put images into a 'year' or in an 'event' node they are already sorted. You might be interested by this: http://stackoverflow.com/a/3263550 http://stackoverflow.com/a/3263550 In particular, Tagistant allows things such as: $ ls ~/myfiles/store/photos/@/London/ $ ls ~/myfiles/store/pictures:/aperture/gt/5.6/@ $ ls ~/myfiles/store/time:/hour/lt/3/@ etc ...
- sigi45 10y ago
  I will have alook :). In generall it would have been awesome if MS would have done it on a broad spectrum.

bluejekyll 10y ago

I'll throw in a mention of OSTree: https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree