Fossil

This is about the Fossil filesystem. For Fido/Opus/SEAdog Standard Interface Layer, see the all-caps FOSSIL. For the main format used by the Fossil version control system, see Fossil repository database.

File Format
Name	Fossil
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Filesystem Fossil

Fossil is a filessytem for Plan 9 (not from outer space, but from Bell Labs or User Space). It takes archival snapshots to preserve the state of the files at various points in time.

Links

• Wikipedia article
• Man page
• Setting up Fossil