Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932810AbXFSTJT (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:09:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932734AbXFSTJI (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:09:08 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:59030 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763192AbXFSTJH (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:09:07 -0400 Message-ID: <467829C4.5020101@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:08:52 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Snook CC: Jack Stone , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, alan Subject: Re: Versioning file system References: <46731169.2090002@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org> <4673182B.4090800@redhat.com> <46739E89.1080003@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org> <46781A5B.9090104@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <46781A5B.9090104@redhat.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 593 Lines: 15 Chris Snook wrote: > I pointed out NetApp's .snapshot directories because that's a method > that uses legal path character, but doesn't break anything. With this > method, userspace tools will have to be taught that : is suddenly a > special character. Not to mention that the character historically used for this purpose is ; (semicolon.) -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/