From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.9g Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:18:21 -0800 Message-ID: <43750A9D.7070400@zytor.com> References: <7vmzkc2a3e.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <43737EC7.6090109@zytor.com> <7v4q6k1jp0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-From: linux-kernel-owner+glk-linux-kernel-3=40m.gmane.org-S1751203AbVKKVSe@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 11 22:19:14 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EagIW-000584-TO for glk-linux-kernel-3@gmane.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 22:19:01 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751203AbVKKVSe (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:18:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751205AbVKKVSd (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:18:33 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:4805 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751203AbVKKVSc (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:18:32 -0500 Received: from [10.4.1.13] (yardgnome.orionmulti.com [209.128.68.65]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jABLIQiR021088 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:18:26 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Junio C Hamano In-Reply-To: <7v4q6k1jp0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87.1, clamav-milter version 0.87 on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" writes: > > >>May I *STRONGLY* urge you to name that something different. >>"lost+found" is a name with special properties in Unix; for example, >>many backup solutions will ignore a directory with that name. > > > Yeah, the original proposal (in TODO list) explicitly stated why > I chose lost-found instead of lost+found back then, and somebody > on the list (could have been Pasky but I may be mistaken) said > not to worry. In any case, if we go the route Daniel suggests, > we would not be storing anything on the filesystem ourselves so > this would be a non-issue. > Just realized one more issue with this... a lot of non-Unix filesystems can't deal with files with a + sign. -hpa