>We don't need a new special character for every
>> new feature. We've got one, and it's flexible enough to do what you
want,
>> as proven by NetApp's extremely successful implementation.
I don't know NetApp's implementation, but I assume it is more than just a
choice of special character. If you merely start the directory name with
a dot, you don't fool anyone but 'ls' and shell wildcard expansion. (And
for some enlightened people like me, you don't even fool ls, because we
use the --almost-all option to show the dot files by default, having been
burned too many times by invisible files).
I assume NetApp flags the directory specially so that a POSIX directory
read doesn't get it. I've seen that done elsewhere.
The same thing, by the way, is possible with Jack's filename:version idea,
and I assumed that's what he had in mind. Not that that makes it all OK.
--
Bryan Henderson IBM Almaden Research Center
San Jose CA Filesystems
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