From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.9g
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 09:46:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4374D913.503@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511111516170.7575@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> Two reasons against renaming:
>
> - we call it fsck-objects for a reason. We are working on a file system,
> which just so happens to be implemented in user space, not kernel space.
> If lost+found has to find a new name, so does fsck-objects.
>
I'm sorry, but that is bull. The problem here isn't the conventional
naming, it's that you're implementing your filesystem on top of another
filesystem, and you're running into a layering conflict.
> - lost+found has a special meaning, granted. So, a backup would not be
> made of it. So what? I *don't* want it backup'ed. I want to repair what
> was wrong with it. When I repaired it, the result is stored somewhere
> else. To backup lost+found would make as much sense as to backup /tmp.
>
The default should ALWAYS be no data loss.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-11 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-10 8:14 [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.9g Junio C Hamano
2005-11-10 9:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-11-10 17:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-10 18:34 ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-11 21:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-12 11:37 ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-11 18:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-12 12:17 ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-14 7:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-14 9:23 ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-14 21:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-14 9:32 ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-10 9:54 ` Yaacov Akiba Slama
2005-11-10 19:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-10 17:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-10 17:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-10 18:03 ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-10 18:31 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-11-10 19:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-10 19:09 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-11-10 19:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-10 19:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-11 21:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-11 14:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-11 17:46 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-11-10 18:54 ` Jim Radford
2005-11-10 20:30 ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-10 20:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-11 18:23 ` Jim Radford
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