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A file-type sensitive, auto-versioning file system

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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

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    DocEng '10: Proceedings of the 10th ACM symposium on Document engineering
    September 2010
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    ISBN:9781450302319
    DOI:10.1145/1860559
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    1. auto-versioning
    2. document management
    3. file system
    4. regulatory compliance
    5. version control

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