From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: [PATCH] "metas" in reiserfs v4 snapshot 2004.03.26 Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 10:13:19 -0700 Message-ID: <200405151013.19473.reiser@namesys.com> References: <20040329185901.62166.qmail@web25008.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <40A587FF.30103@namesys.com> <40A520DB.4080200@lindows.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <40A520DB.4080200@lindows.com> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Clifford Beshers Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com You are probably right about scp specifically, but in general @ is used by some things that expect it to mean user@host. @ could be used, I think clearcase used it, I just don't see it as better than "metas". Hans On Friday 14 May 2004 12:41, Clifford Beshers wrote: > Hans Reiser wrote: > > Grant Miner wrote: > >> Someone mentioned earlier, and I like just the at sign: @ Think of it > >> short for "attributes". > >> > >> file/@/uid > >> > >> The nice thing about @ is it shows up early lexicographically, it's > >> short and unlikely to be used. This name is important to pick well > >> because it will likely set a long precedent. > > > > It would be a problem for utilities like scp.... > > Hans, are you sure? I tried some examples and had no troubles. From my > history: > > 588 cd ~/tmp > 589 mkdir -p foo/@ > 590 touch foo/@/uid > 591 scp -rp foo/@/uid stan:/tmp > 592 ssh stan 'mkdir -p /tmp/foo/@ ; touch /tmp/foo/@/uid' > 593 scp -rp stan:/tmp/foo/@ . > > I'm not sure if @ is a good choice or not, but I don't think it would > actually cause trouble syntactically, because everything expecting > hostnames looks for a colon. > > -- > > This message contains information which may be confidential and privileged. > Unless you are the addressee (or authorized to receive for the addressee), > you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone the message or any information > contained in the message. If you have received the message in error, please > advise the sender and delete the message. Thank you.