Re: does openbsd support file history?

On Fri, Jun 27, 2025, at 1:51 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2025-06-26, Robert B. Carleton <rbc@rbcarleton.net> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> That's not going to get you history, it would still be an FFS filesystem

I think it would let you mount earlier versions of the filesystem
read-only. You'd have to separately mount each date-time you wanted
to examine; annoying unless you scripted it. I'm not going to go
this route. When I learned OpenBSD doesn't have log structured
filesystems, I thought I'd use it just for networking and some other
OS for file serving. Now I'm reading up on OmniOS, I might use it
for both tasks as its IPF looks simple enough.