From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Versioning file system Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:08:52 -0700 Message-ID: <467829C4.5020101@zytor.com> References: <46731169.2090002@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org> <4673182B.4090800@redhat.com> <46739E89.1080003@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org> <46781A5B.9090104@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jack Stone , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, alan To: Chris Snook Return-path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:59030 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763192AbXFSTJH (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:09:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <46781A5B.9090104@redhat.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Chris Snook wrote: > I pointed out NetApp's .snapshot directories because that's a method > that uses legal path character, but doesn't break anything. With this > method, userspace tools will have to be taught that : is suddenly a > special character. Not to mention that the character historically used for this purpose is ; (semicolon.) -hpa