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SubjectRe: Versioning file system
david@lang.hm wrote:
>
> the only trouble I ever had with the .snapshot approach is when tar or
> find would decend down into the .snapshot when I didn't really intend
> for it to do so.
>

Netapp optionally made .snapshot not show up in readdir, which solved
that problem.

I have a bigger issue with it starting with only one dot, which is
traditionally used for user configuration information. I think
..snapshot would have been a better choice, and by extension leaving
double-dot filenames as filesystem namespace (I know that contradicts
POSIX, but the only namespace available in POSIX is /../ which is a
global namespace.)

-hpa
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