A file-type sensitive, auto-versioning file system

  • Authors:
  • Arthur Müller;Sebastian Rönnau;Uwe M. Borghoff

  • Affiliations:
  • Universität der Bundeswehr München, München, Germany;Universität der Bundeswehr München, München, Germany;Universität der Bundeswehr München, München, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 10th ACM symposium on Document engineering
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Auto-versioning file systems offer a simple and reliable interface to document change control. The implicit versioning of documents at each write access catches the whole evolution of a document, thus supporting regulatory compliance rules. Most existing file systems work on low abstraction levels and track the document evolution on their binary representation. Higher-level differencing tools allow for a far more meaningful change-tracking, though. In this paper, we present an auto-versioning file system that is able to handle files depending on their file type. This way, a suitable differencing tool can be assigned to each file type. Our approach supports regulatory compliant storage as well as the archiving of documents