Java NIO File file/folder versioning

[Tigran Mkrtchyan]

I think in the most cases will be enough to get file's inode generation number.
This will be not a big change to API and can be implemented for the most OS-es.
I will be happy to see such change as well.

Tigran.

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
> On 20/08/2012 15:53, Syao Work wrote:
>>
>> Hello to all,
>>
>> We are in need of implementation of VFS with versioning (the engine could
>> be JCR or similar...).
>> It would be good to use Java NIO File API instead of quite old Apache
>> Commons VFS. So here is the question:
>>
>> Is there a plan of making NIO File API compatible with (V)FSes that has
>> version control support? Similar to Apache Commons VFS or JCR versions.
>> I searched the API/Papaers and couldn't find info about it.
>>
>> P.S. may be you have some ideas how to make version control work with
>> versionless NIO File API?
>>
>> Sorry for my English.
>> Jonny
>
> I'm not aware of anyone working on a file system provider that a version
> control system. It could be an interesting project but I suspect there will
> be challenges and that it may not be possible to completely implement the
> API.
>
> -Alan