From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hubert Chan Subject: Re: [PATCH] "metas" in reiserfs v4 snapshot 2004.03.26 Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 21:50:23 -0500 Sender: news Message-ID: <87hdw5vifk.fsf@uhoreg.ca> References: <20040330123546.GA5229@nysv.org> <200403301513.01851.christian.mayrhuber@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com >>>>> "Christian" == Christian Mayrhuber writes: Christian> What about introducing an separator for meta information, Christian> like it is / for directories. This separator could be turned Christian> into a mount option to avoid breakage of some apps. Christian> My suggestion is "@" to become the default separator, because Christian> XPath uses it for attributes and it is THE accepted standard Christian> so far. Filesystems are just a new domain. ... That effectively kills all filenames that contain @, much worse than just a "metas" conflict IMHO. -- Hubert Chan - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.