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Ask HN: I'd like an OS/FileSystem that Never Deletes Anything. Does it exist?

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Re: Ask HN: I'd like an OS/FileSystem that Never Deletes Anything. Does it exist?

#31

S3FS with versioning enabled on the S3 bucket would be a pretty low friction way to implement this. You'd also have to enable cross-region replication to deal with your "backups" being in the same place as your working copies. OpenVMS also has a versioning filesystem and a NFS server. The x64 version is available as a private beta, but it's not cheap. Personally, I just keep most stuff in a Google Drive folder and im…

S3FS can also be paired with MinIO (1) for a selfhosted solution. MinIO does apear to support versioning.

Also it appears VSI will offer free comunity licenses for OpenVMS x64 in the future (3).

(1) https://min.io

(2) https://min.io/product/object-versioning-bucket-versioning

(3) https://vmssoftware.com/about/news/2020-07-28-community-lice...

Re: Ask HN: I'd like an OS/FileSystem that Never Deletes Anything. Does it exist?

#32
Just for reference, here are links to various old research papers referencing solutions to this scenario:

A list of options from a report:

https://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/docs/secfs-rpe/index.html#tth_...

VersionFS:

https://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/docs/versionfs-msthesis/index....

Elephant:

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.70....

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.129...

Silver:

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hotstorage16/...

Also possibly of interest, vfs:

https://github.com/FooSoft/vfs

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