ext3cow

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Ext3cow or third extended filesystem with copy-on-write is an open source, versioning file system based on the ext3 file system. Versioning is implemented through block-level copy-on-write. It shares many of its performance characteristics with ext3.

Ext3cow provides a time-shifting interface that permits a real-time and continuous view of data in the past. Time-shifting is a novel interface, introduced in ext3cow, allowing users to navigate through and access past namespaces by adding a time component to their commands.

Ext3cow was designed to be a platform for compliance with the versioning and auditability requirements of recent US electronic record retention legislation, such as

A version of ext3cow for the Linux 2.6 kernel was released on March 30, 2007.

Details on ext3cow's implementation can be found in a 2005 paper.^[1]

See also

• ext3
• Next3
• List of file systems
• Comparison of file systems
• Htree

References

External links

• "The ext3cow File System". Archived from the original on 20 August 2006.
• "ext3cow". Freecode.