Re: Versioning file system

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:08:52 -0700
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.)

Yes but tdskb:foo.mac[1013,1013,frob];4 is *not* elegant. POSIX is very
clear about what is acceptable as magic in a pathname, and the unix spec
even more so.  The NetApp approach recognizes two important things

1.	Old version access is the oddity not the norm
2.	Standards behaviour is important


Alan
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