[Discuss] Versioning File Systems

[richard.pieri at gmail.com (Richard Pieri)]

On 5/4/2012 9:18 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote:
> At the risk of oversimplifying, you might consider git a versioned
> file system.  And for "automatic" versioning of /etc, I have to say
> etckeeper [1] is "a keeper" :-)

Certainly closer than file system snapshots.  There is still a gotcha 
that can bite you.  Revision control runs asynchronously to file 
creation and modification so race conditions between the two can lead to 
data loss (missing revisions, not missing files).

-- 
Rich P.