Coherent File State Maintained Among Confederated Repositories By Distributed Workspace Apparatuses Backed Up By a File State Ledgerdemain Store

摘要

Each one of many networked user workstation apparatuses may commit a file into the variant controlled file system by storing a version tracking record for each change log and content point for each block of the file into its local file system view store, and transmitting a version tracking record to a network attached file state ledgerdemain store. Each user workstation displays a file system view of every variant of every file in the file system for selection. When required, the workstation applies change logs to content points according to first a local file system view store for a version tracking record, then requesting and comparing version tracking records from confederated repositories at other user workstation apparatuses, and if unsatisfied, obtains a version tracking record from a network attached file state ledgerdemain store.

主权项

1. A workstation client apparatus for coherent management of all files committed to a project with distributed repositories, said apparatus comprising:
a network interface, communicatively coupled to the following elements, a repository, a file system view circuit, a store for file system views of other workstation client apparatuses communicatively coupled, a circuit to determine a change log, change log serial number, content point, and content point value for each file variant, when it is committed into a variant controlled file system, a circuit to receive, and to transmit change logs and content points when a block of a variant file is read, and a circuit to apply a change logs to a content point received from an other workstation client apparatus when the local store does not contain the desired block of a variant file.