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

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Digital's VMS/OpenVMS had something that was a fair way towards this, in that a file was created with a version number (myfile.txt;1) and when modified, a 2nd file (myfile.txt;2) was created, and so on...

In practice we used to work on things then purge when happy with the final changes, as we didn't have that much 'spare' disk, but it was a nice feature.

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