Epoch like filesystem
David Collier-Brown
davecb at yunexus.YorkU.CA
Wed Oct 17 23:46:01 AEST 1990
rodney at sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) writes:
>Why not write some code to make a standard sunos system behave like Epoch?
hutch at fps.com (Jim Hutchison) writes:
>In article <60058 at bbn.BBN.COM> chowe at bbn.com (Carl Howe) writes:
>Plan 9 from Bell Labs does a similar sort of thing. They back up the
>entire contents of their hard disk to optical every night as part of
>the standard file system tree.
Er, Mutlicks had a requirement for stable storage too, back in the prehistory
of Unix...
One's files were migrated automagically to a storge medium after
creation or change. Perhaps someone old enough could comment on this?
--dave
[One of the requirements of a timesharing service is that one can feed
confident in keeping one's **only** copy of data online: it is a system
requirement to checkpoint/journal/backup at fairly fine intervals to prevent
losses of significant work. That was interpreted as ``a few hours at
worst'' in the Multics requirements spec]
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