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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:12:37 +0100
From: Jack Stone <jack@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org>
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To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
CC: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, alan <alan@clueserver.org>
Subject: Re: Versioning file system
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H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.)

But that would cause havoc with shells which use ; to seperate commands.
Using ; would defiantly break userspace

Jack

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