Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750947AbVKKRrQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:47:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750964AbVKKRrQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:47:16 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:53451 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750947AbVKKRrP (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:47:15 -0500 Message-ID: <4374D913.503@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 09:46:59 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johannes Schindelin CC: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.9g References: <7vmzkc2a3e.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <43737EC7.6090109@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1085 Lines: 27 Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > Two reasons against renaming: > > - we call it fsck-objects for a reason. We are working on a file system, > which just so happens to be implemented in user space, not kernel space. > If lost+found has to find a new name, so does fsck-objects. > I'm sorry, but that is bull. The problem here isn't the conventional naming, it's that you're implementing your filesystem on top of another filesystem, and you're running into a layering conflict. > - lost+found has a special meaning, granted. So, a backup would not be > made of it. So what? I *don't* want it backup'ed. I want to repair what > was wrong with it. When I repaired it, the result is stored somewhere > else. To backup lost+found would make as much sense as to backup /tmp. > The default should ALWAYS be no data loss. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/