Re: does openbsd support file history?

On Thursday, June 26, 2025 5:36:31 PM CDT Chris Narkiewicz wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 10:33:09PM +0100, Ethan Azariah wrote:
> > do any openbsd filesystems support any sort of file history, whether
> > through snapshots or as a log structured filesystem or any other way?
>
> No, FFS has no such capability. AFAIK there is no ongoing effort to
> bring a alternative FS to OpenBSD.
>
> Best regards,
> Chris Narkiewicz

I haven't tried it, but I contemplated trying the OpenBSD iSCSI initiator
iscsid(8) and using FreeBSD to provide a ZFS zvol block device as a target.

You'd still have to fsck OpenBSD filesystems on partitions from the iSCSI
drive, but you would get at least some advantage from having ZFS serve up the
storage. I didn't do any testing though, so I still don't know how well it
would work. Maybe someone else has tried it.