david@xxxxxxx wrote: > > the only trouble I ever had with the .snapshot approach is when tar or > find would decend down into the .snapshot when I didn't really intend > for it to do so. > Netapp optionally made .snapshot not show up in readdir, which solved that problem. I have a bigger issue with it starting with only one dot, which is traditionally used for user configuration information. I think ..snapshot would have been a better choice, and by extension leaving double-dot filenames as filesystem namespace (I know that contradicts POSIX, but the only namespace available in POSIX is /../ which is a global namespace.) -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
