From: "Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@rogers.com>
To: Reiser FS Mailing List <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Carrying Attributes too Far
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 11:35:28 -0400 EDT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46913241180-BeMail@cr593174-a> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1063984392.6518.42.camel@biker.psw.pdb.fsc.net>
Martin Wilck wrote on 19 Sep 2003 17:13:12 +0200:
> Call it .metadata if you wish. I just wanted to say that a reasonable
> English name will be easier to understand than ".," for almost
> everybody.
Normally I'm a fan of long names, so .metadata is good, or .attributes would also work.
> > Saving typing effort on teletype keyboards is an ancient Unix tradition.
>
> The question is if that tradition is really so important in this
> context. Will that file name be typed more often than, say,
> '.xsession-errors' or '.nautilus-metafile.xml'?
Hmmm. Hard to say what the usage will be. If I want the MIME type for a fildirute thing, would I be typing:
cat Thing/.,/MIME or cat Thing/.metadata/MIME or cat Thing/,,/MIME
Actually, Thing/,,/MIME is the easiest one to type. /.,/ is annoyingly awkward, since the three keys are adjacent and have to be hit in the right order. /.metadata/ isn't too bad, though it is mostly left handed, making it a good repetitive stress injury source. /,,/ just feels good. You try it! Mmmmmm, slash comma comma slash.
- Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-19 15:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-11 15:14 Fwd: Re: Reiser4: "pseudo file namespace" suggestion Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-11 15:18 ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-13 23:59 ` Carrying Attributes too Far (was Reiser4: "pseudo file namespace" suggestion) Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-14 1:56 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-14 3:46 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-14 3:53 ` Carrying Attributes too Far Hubert Chan
2003-09-14 4:21 ` Hubert Chan
2003-09-14 3:39 ` Hubert Chan
2003-09-14 4:21 ` Hubert Chan
2003-09-16 19:15 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-18 17:14 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-18 18:08 ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-18 20:16 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-18 20:31 ` Grant Miner
2003-09-18 21:44 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-18 22:00 ` Grant Miner
2003-09-18 22:28 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-18 22:42 ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-18 23:06 ` Grant Miner
2003-09-18 23:17 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-18 23:23 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-18 23:28 ` Grant Miner
2003-09-19 0:29 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-19 0:28 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-19 0:46 ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-19 1:45 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-19 2:52 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-19 4:40 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-19 8:42 ` Martin Wilck
2003-09-19 13:27 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-19 15:13 ` Martin Wilck
2003-09-19 15:35 ` Alexander G. M. Smith [this message]
2003-09-19 15:48 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-19 13:20 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-19 13:46 ` Bennett Todd
2003-09-19 19:31 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-19 22:51 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-20 1:31 ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-22 15:53 ` Attribute Directory Name (Was: Carrying Attributes too Far) Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-22 20:02 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-22 22:52 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-22 13:28 ` Carrying Attributes too Far lrc1
2003-09-22 22:50 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-23 1:21 ` lrc1
2003-09-23 22:48 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-24 16:57 ` lrc1
2003-09-24 9:35 ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-24 17:52 ` lrc1
2003-09-24 19:37 ` Hubert Chan
2003-09-25 3:40 ` Hans Reiser
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-04 5:58 lrc1
2003-10-04 18:17 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-10-04 20:10 ` Hubert Chan
2003-12-03 19:18 ` Hans Reiser
2003-12-05 0:30 ` lrc1
2003-12-05 5:27 ` Hubert Chan
2003-12-05 12:38 ` Hans Reiser
2003-12-06 23:33 ` lrc1
2003-12-07 2:48 ` Hubert Chan
2003-12-07 17:08 ` Hans Reiser
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