Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:12:37 +0100 | From | Jack Stone <> | Subject | Re: Versioning file system |
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H. Peter Anvin 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.)
But that would cause havoc with shells which use ; to seperate commands. Using ; would defiantly break userspace
Jack
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