From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Alexander G. M. Smith" Subject: Re: Carrying Attributes too Far Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:27:44 -0400 EDT Message-ID: <39249798517-BeMail@cr593174-a> References: <1063960955.1978.347.camel@biker.psw.pdb.fsc.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <1063960955.1978.347.camel@biker.psw.pdb.fsc.net> List-Id: To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Martin Wilck wrote on 19 Sep 2003 10:42:35 +0200: > Hey folks, I know it's not my business, but '...', ,',,', '_', '!', '@', > '-' ... is this really a serious discussion? What about '"' or even ' '? No, they cause problems with various shell special characters. So you'd have to escape them with a preceeding backslash if you used them. That's awkward (even more than using a shifted letter like "_"). > There is enough cryptic stuff already in our file systems. Are you > prepared to answer tons of email asking what those cryptic files are > for, or suspecting crackers at work? Just explain to them that it's a new operating system and things are different there. If it's too annoying, we can stick a virtual readme file in all ,, directories explaining what it is. Maybe one for each language too :-) > Why don't you just call it '.reiserfs-metadata' or similar? Is it really > so important how many keystrokes the name takes? Why are you debating > about localization and, at the same, arguing about the position of > characters on your (U.S., I suppose) keyboard? .reiserfs-metadata is English. And it's also ReiserFS specific, while I want to name attributes in other fildirute style file systems too. Saving typing effort on teletype keyboards is an ancient Unix tradition. - Alex P.S. How about ".,"? Makes it hidden to older systems, yet isn't too hard to type.