Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:13:33 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Versioning file system |
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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.)
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