Alan Cox wrote: > > Yes but tdskb:foo.mac[1013,1013,frob];4 is *not* elegant. I think describing VMS pathname syntax as "not elegant" is kind of like describing George W. Bush as "not a genius." > 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 > 3. An atomic snapshot is more useful than a bunch of disconnected per-file version. Kind of like CVS vs SVN. -hpa - 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
