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.

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