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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 23:21:29 -0700
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To: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
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David Masover wrote:

>   I used the betas for months, and "metas"
> never burned me.

metas is much less likely than what clearcase uses to be hit 
accidentally (After all these years I forget what exactly clearcase 
special cases, maybe it was "@@").  When people using clearcase suffer a 
namespace collision, life goes on, no big deal, they structure a 
filename slightly differently and so what?  I mean, just how much do we 
suffer from not being able to use '/' in filenames?  Every once in a 
while it is annoying, but not that much....