On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:08:52 -0700 "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> 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.) Yes but tdskb:foo.mac[1013,1013,frob];4 is *not* elegant. POSIX is very clear about what is acceptable as magic in a pathname, and the unix spec even more so. The NetApp approach recognizes two important things 1. Old version access is the oddity not the norm 2. Standards behaviour is important Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
